Martin Dolezal joined IHS in March 2018. He studied political science and history at the University of Vienna; in 2011 he received his habilitation (political science) from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Previous positions: 2002-2005 Post-Doc Researcher at the Chair for Political Science/Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2005-2009 at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science (LMU); 2009-2015 Assistant Professor at the Department of Government/University of Vienna and researcher for the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES). 2015-2021 PI of the project “The Austrian Protest Arena in the 21st Century” (funded by the FWF); since October 2018 Senior Scientist at the Department of Political Science/University of Salzburg where he was engaged in the EU Horizon 2020-project "Populism and Civic Engagement (PaCE)"; since February 2022 also Post-Doc Researcher at the Institute of Public Law and Political Science/University of Graz.