Heiko Pleines is Head of the Department of Politics and Economics at the Research Centre for East European Studies and Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bremen. His research focuses on protests in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. He has recently concluded a research project on the role of journalists in Ukraine’s mass protests of 2013/14. An overview of results has been published in the journal “Democratization”. Currently he is working on the relationship between public perceptions, social protests and social policy making. Heiko’s more detailed academic profile is available online . His publications are listed on Google Scholar. The data collections produced within his “Comparing Protest Actions”-project are available in the Discuss Data repository .

Sophia Hunger is assistant professor of Computational Social Science at the University of Bremen. Previously, she was post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research located at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where she is still associated as guest researcher. Sophia received her doctorate from the European University Institute in 2020.
Sophia’s research focuses on protest movements, party competition, political communication, and applied quantitative methods, particularly quantitative text analysis and automated event extraction. She is furthermore interested in developing new methods to identify protest events measure positions, and polarization in political communication and public debate. Her work has been published in Political Science Research and Methods, European Political Science Review, West Eruopean Politics, Political Research Exchange, and Swiss Political Science Review. She is engaged in public debates on protest and electoral behaviour and has contributed expert opinions to ARD, ZDF, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Deutschlandfunk, Berliner Tagesspiegel, France24, El País, NDR, rbb, among others. More information can be found on her homepage: https://sophiahunger.eu/.

Philipp Srama holds a degree in political science from Freie Universität Berlin. He is a doctoral student at the Research Centre for East European Studies and a research assistant at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. His research interests include protest dynamics, forms of political participation, the interplay of national and local protests, social movements and countermovements, and migration-related protest. 

Nina Krienke is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. There, she also recently obtained her PhD in Social Sciences and Economics, investigating the phenomenon of clustered public protest mobilization and connected dynamics of civil society formation throughout the last 15 years in Romania in a political ethnography. She is keen to use her on-site field experiences also in theoretical and methodological reflections, especially in the fields of political difference theory and political ethnography (see, e.g., here). Together with the Romanian documentary filmer Sergiu Zorger, she works on an interactive online protest archive for the recent Romanian protests, named „O altă poveste” (a different story; public launch upcoming). More details about her scientific work and publications can be found online and on her Research Gate profile.

Sebastian Haunss is Professor for Political Science and head of the research group Social Problems at SOCIUM, Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. He is speaker of the Research Institute on Social Cohesion in Bremen and Chairman of the Institute for Protest and Social Movement Studies (ipb). His work focusses on protest and social movements, global health politics, computational social sciences and network analysis. Recent publications have addressed the emergence and development of climate protests, local protest event analysis, and protest-counterprotest-dynamics. A more detailed overview of his work is available on his SOCIUM webpage. His publications are listed in his Google Scholar profile.