Dr Daniel Bochsler joined DISC in Fall 2009 after defending his PhD at the University of Geneva (2008), specializing in the effects of electoral systems on party systems in post-communist democracies, mediated by party nationalisation. His research centres on political parties, elections and direct democracy, focusing on young democracies and on Switzerland. His publications include articles in Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, the European Yearbook for Minority Issues, Public Choice, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. His new monograph (Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies) is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Check Daniels webpage on www.bochsler.eu
I received my PhD in Rome at "La Sapienza" University in 2005. Then I have spent three and a half years in Leipzig, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, where I specialized in EEG/ERP (event related brain potentials) and NIRS (near infrared spectroscopy) techniques with young infants. My research interests are focused on infant development, in particular the development social cognition.
Enikő Demény is a Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB). She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2006 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. She has MA degrees in Gender Studies (CEU) and Cultural Anthropology, BA in Sociology (Babes Bolyai University) and BSc in Civil Engineering (Technical University, Cluj). Her research interests include the impact of new technologies on identity and the family; Ethical, social and policy aspects of new converging technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences); social sciences and bioethics.
Deniz Bingol McDonald after receiving her Master’s degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and restructural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey, in Central European University- Budapest. She published in Millennium and European Journal of Public Policy on civil society-state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate countries. Her other research interest include political economy of property rights reform,Turkish foreign policy, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
