Johannes Bergh
Research director and the head of the Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES) program at the Institute for Social Research.
His research interests include political participation, experimental designs, voting, and political behaviour among minorities.
Bergh is involved with the Norwegian Migrant Election Study and has published widely using those data.
Achim Goerres
Professor of empirical political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
One of the PIs of the Immigrant German Election Study I and II that has been funded by the German Research Foundation since 2016.
Specialist for comparative political behaviour, complex survey sampling, survey experiments and focus group data collection and analysis.
Mari-Liis Jakobson
Associate professor of political sociology at Tallinn University.
Her research interests relate to populism and migrant transnationalism.
During 2025–2027, she leads NordForsk funded project Political Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization (POLINERA), which conducts a post-election minority survey in Estonia in 2025.
Niels Spierings
Professor of sociology at Radboud University.
Initiator and one of the PIs of the Dutch Ethnic Minority Elections Study in 2021 and 2023.
Coordinates multiple other minority-focused survey projects and is an expert on inclusion and intersectionality in quantitative research.
Floris Vermeulen
Associate professor at the department of political science at the University of Amsterdam.
Works on the civic and political participation of people with an immigrant background at the national and local level in an international comparative perspective.
In the coming years he will be involved in the organization of the Dutch Ethnic Minority Election Study.
Derek Stanford Hutcheson
Professor of political science at Malmö University.
He has researched extensively on Russian and post-Soviet politics, as well as the comparative study of electoral politics, transnational citizenship and electoral rights across Europe and elsewhere.
During 2024-2028, he leads research project New Perspectives on the Electoral Participation of Immigrants in Sweden , funded by the Swedish Research Council.