Lukas is a Doctoral Researcher at the Chair for European and Multilevel Politics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics at the University of Cologne. In his research, he applies text-as-data and multilevel survey analysis methods to study political preferences and behavior. In his doctoral thesis, he studies how crises affect political dynamics in the EU. 

Previously, Lukas worked as a Data Specialist at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim as part of the project DemThreat (funded by Volkswagenstiftung) and the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). He holds a M.Sc. degree in Social Sciences Research from the University of Amsterdam and a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from the Humboldt-University of Berlin. 

Research Interests

• Political Preferences
• Political Behavior
• Text as Data 
• Survey Analysis 
• (Natural) Experiments

Teaching

Publications

Hetzer, Lukas, and Brian Burgoon. “Regional Crises and European Fiscal Preferences: How Regional Covid-19, Economic Downturn, and Migration Shape Support for EU Risk Sharing.” Journal of European Public Policy, (2024), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2334839.