Thorsten Faas

Thorsten Faas (born 17 August 1975 in Idar-Oberstein) is a German political scientist. He is a professor of political sociology at the Otto Suhr Institute of Freie Universität Berlin.

Education After obtaining his Abitur in 1995 in Kirn, Thorsten Faas studied political science at the University of Bamberg and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He completed his studies at LSE in 2001 with a Master of Science. From 2009 to 2012, Faas was a junior professor of political science, in particular voter behavior, at the University of Mannheim. From September 2012 to September 2017, he was a university professor in the field of "Empirical Political Research" at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Mainz. On October 1, 2017, he became a university professor in the Department of Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on elections, electoral law, election campaigns and election studies. He regularly appears in German media outlets as an expert on elections and electoral campaigns.

Other activities From 2021 to 2024 he was a member of the board of the German Political Science Association. He currently serves as an executive committee member of the German Society for Electoral Studies.