David Schweizer has been a research associate at the Chair of Policy Analysis and Political Economy at RPTU Kaiserslautern since October 2026. Before that, he was a research associate at the Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim, where he taught seminars on data collection, transformation, and visualization in R. He has also worked as a research associate in the ERC project Pergap at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and as a PhD trainee at the European Central Bank.

He is currently completing his PhD in Political Science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on how politicians, parties, and citizens respond to climate change, using computational text analysis and survey data.

• Since 2026: Research associate at the Chair of Political Analysis and Political Economy at the Department of Political Science, RPTU Kaiserslautern
• 2026: Research associate in the Pergap project at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich
• 2021 – 2025: Research associate at the Chair of Comparative Government, University of Mannheim
• Since 2021: PhD in Political Science, University of Mannheim
• 2018 – 2021: M.A. in Political Science, LMU Munich