Sven Hegewald

Welcome to my website.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded RESPOL project at TU Chemnitz, led by Arndt Leininger . Prior to this, I was a postdoctoral researcher with the European Politics Research Group at ETH Zurich, where I also completed my PhD.

In my research, I draw on insights from social psychology, geography, and political science to study territorial divisions in European politics. I focus in particular on the urban–rural divide in political behavior and the crisis of trust in places left behind.

My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, the European Political Science Review, European Union Politics, the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, and the Journal of European Public Policy.

Education

9/2020–7/2024 Ph.D., Political Science (ETH Zurich)

1/2023–7/2023 Visiting Research Student (University of Oxford)

9/2022–12/2022 Visiting Fellow (Bocconi University)

9/2018–8/2020 M.Sc., Social Sciences (Research) (University of Amsterdam)

9/2015–8/2018 B.A., European Studies (Maastricht University)