I'm a political scientist specializing in contentious politics, security studies, and social science methodology. I research the causes and consequences of violent and nonviolent conflict, the behavior and characteristics of state security forces and opposition groups, violence forecasting and crisis early warning, and processes of regime transformation. My work has been awarded the NEPS Medal and the PSS(I) Moore Prize, and is published in leading journals such PLOS ONE, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research. I take a special interest in teaching research design, causal inference, econometrics, and machine learning, and am a recipient of the Essex Excellence in Education teaching award. I developed two R packages that I maintain on CRAN.

Beginning in March, I will be a senior researcher at the Center for Crisis Early Warning (CCEW) at the Bundeswehr University Munich. I'm also the Senior Advisor on Quantitative Methods of the interdisciplinary Beyond Compliance Consortium at the University of York and a research fellow at the Michael Nicholson Centre for Conflict and Cooperation, University of Essex.

Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York, and held positions as research associate at the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and at the University of Mannheim. In an earlier appointment at the Bundeswehr University Munich, I was working as scientific advisor in support of an IBM-led project developing a crisis early warning system for Germany’s Ministry of Defence. I was invited as visiting researcher to Princeton University, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, and GESIS. In addition to my academic appointments, I also spent one year conducting policy research at the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval). I hold a PhD from the University of Essex and a diploma from the Norwegian Research School on Peace and Conflict.

To get in touch, drop me an email at christoph.dworschak[at]york.ac.uk