Germany
Lucy Kinski is a Postdoc in European Union Politics at the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) and the Department of Political Science at the University of Salzburg, Austria. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna and was a visiting PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. Before joining the University of Salzburg, she has worked as a Postdoc at the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Düsseldorf. Before her PhD, she has also been a policy advisor in the European division of the German Federal Chancellery. Her research focuses on parliaments and representation in the European Union and she has published in journals such as Environmental Politics, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of European Integration, Political Studies, Politics and Governance, and The Journal of Legislative Studies. Her monograph European Representation in EU National Parliaments (Palgrave 2021) was shortlisted for the UACES best book prize 2021.
Simon D. Brause is a research fellow in political science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. His research focuses on political parties, opposition, and representation in a comparative perspective. He has published in the Journal of European Public Policy, Politics and Governance, Party Politics and with Oxford University Press.