Dr. Mohamed Nasr

Mohamed Nasr is a postdoctoral researcher in the European Political Group as a part of the ERC-funded project Rebordering Europe: Boundary Formation in European Integration (EUROBORD). Mohamed investigates the role of political parties in politicizing EU boundaries and leads data collection for the working package on political parties.
 

Mohamed has recently obtained his doctorate from the European University Institute in 2021 and Master of Science from the University of Oxford in 2018. His doctoral dissertation investigated how parties' electoral strategies, such as position avoidance and position blurring, shape voter perceptions of party positions. His work has recently appeared in Comparative Political Studies and Electoral Studies. During his PhD, he has also been involved in designing and running cross-country surveys on public opinion and European solidarity in the framework of the EUI-YouGov ‘Solidarity in Europe’ project. Mohamed's research interests include party competition, political behavior, and public opinion. Empirically, he is interested in quantitative methods, experiments, and text-as-data methods.