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 the political preferences and behavior of citizens and policy makers. 
Previously, Lukas worked as a Data Specialist at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim as part of the third-party funded project DemThreat 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.