Dr. Stefanie Lütters is a research associate at the DIID at HHU-Düsseldorf. As part of her dissertation in sociology, she studied the influence of social networks on political participation in contrasting social spaces. Previously, she studied social sciences at the University of Cologne (B.Sc.) and at the HHU-Düsseldorf (M.A.).

Her research interests lie in political sociology, especially in the areas of social and political inequality, social capital, and the impact of digitalization on political participation.