Dr. Vlad Surdea-Hernea 

Nonresident Research Fellow

Dr. Vlad Surdea-Hernea is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Life Sciences in Vienna. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Central European University. 

Vlad is a quantitative political scientist with interests in political behaviour, party politics, and historical political economy. His research examines the interaction between proximate and distal factors in shaping how individuals express their political preferences through voting, protesting, or climate change related activism. His work has previously been published in the European Political Science Review, the European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, and the Economics of Transition and Institutional Change. 

Outside of academia, Vlad has worked as a project manager and consultant in projects funded by the World Bank, the European Commission or the German Development Agency on energy and climate policy issues.