Carsten Q. Schneider is Pro-Rector for External Relations and Professor of Political Science at Central European University (CEU). His research and teaching interests focus on the study of political regime change processes in different world regions and on comparative social science methodology, especially set‐theoretic methods. He is author three books on set-theoretic methods and QCA published with Cambridge University Press in 2012, 2021, and 2023, and on the Consolidation of Democracy in Europe and Latin America, with Routledge, in 2009. His articles appeared, among others, in Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, Political Analysis, Political Research Quarterly, and Sociological Methods and Research. Schneider is the winner of the 2019 David-Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award. From 2009-14, he was an elected member of the German Academy of Young Scientists. Schneider holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI). He has spent research stays at the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, the Social Science Center in Berlin (WZB), the New School in New York City, the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and several other places.
