Prof. Dr. Thomas Poguntke has held the Chair of Comparative Politics at the HHU since 2010 in conjunction with his Co-Directorship of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute PRuF. He specializes on the comparative analysis of political parties and coordinates a longitudinal cross-national project on political parties in more than 50 countries around the globe (https://www.politicalpartydb.org) in collaboration with Susan Scarrow (Houston) and Paul Webb (Sussex).

In the context of the DIID he will focus on digital intra-party democracy and digital campaigning.