Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). He employs a mixed methods perspective to do so (big data along with qualitative content analysis) and has analyzed this for a wide diversity of cases: 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, but also elections, Covid and Eurovision. At the moment, Thijs is particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.

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Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making).  He employs a mixed methods perspective to do so (big data along with qualitative content analysis) and has analyzed this for a wide diversity of cases: 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, but also elections, Covid and Eurovision. At the moment, Thijs is particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.

He teaches within the Bachelor Security Studies and Master in Crisis and Security Management on climate politics, events and qualitative research methods. He is also coordinator of the Minor Public Risk and Disaster, a programme that is jointly organized by Leiden University and the TU Delft.

Thijs studied Sociology in Utrecht, Mannheim, and Amsterdam and obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam. As part of his PhD training, he spent research time at Washington University St. Louis, EHESS (Paris Campus) and City University New York. Before joining ISGA, Thijs was a Marie Curie Fellow at KU Leuven. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs as well as Coordinator of its Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. In the fall of 2024, he was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (Chicago).

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