Dr. Hans Jonas Gunzelmann

Hans Jonas Gunzelmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research where he is involved in a research project on civil society and the far right. His areas of interest are political sociology and organizational sociology, in particular social movements, protest, and civil society.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin with a scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. At Freie Universität, he investigated the role of protest and social movement organizations in the Catalan secessionist conflict. In October 2021 he received his PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence. He studied political science in Madrid, Marburg, and Madison (Wisconsin) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Barcelona, the University of Gothenburg, and Technical University Berlin.