Leon Krause

Associate Fellow

Leon Krause is an Associate Fellow at PRIF’s International Institutions Research Department and a doctoral candidate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ) in Frankfurt. His research focuses on public opinion on foreign policy, the impact of international events on national polarization and politicization, and the identification of causal effects through (survey) experiments.

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CV

| since 10/2025
Researcher at PRIF, Berlin Office

| since 04/2025 
Associate Fellow at PRIF

| since 04/2025
Doctoral Canditate at the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ) in Frankfurt

| 2024–2025
Student Assistant at PRIF

| 2023–2025 
M.A. Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin

| 2021–2024 
Student Assistant at GIGA, Hamburg

| 2020–2023
B.A. Political Science at Universität Hamburg and Sciences Po Bordeaux

| 2015–2019
B.A. „Betriebswirtschaftslehre – Digitale Wirtschaft“ at Berliner Hochschule für Technik

Highlights

Security in Numbers?

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius with several people in Bundeswehr uniforms New PRIF Spotlight provides “instruction leaflet” for opinion polls on foreign and security policy

Publications

  • Sicherheit in Zahlen? Ein Beipackzettel für Meinungsumfragen zu Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik
    | 2025
    Brockmeier-Large, Sarah; Eder, Christina; Jedinger, Alexander; Katsanidou, Alexia; Krause, Leon (2025): Sicherheit in Zahlen? Ein Beipackzettel für Meinungsumfragen zu Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, PRIF Spotlight, 7, Frankfurt/M. DOI: 10.48809/prifspot2507