Nikolaos Frantzeskakis joined the Department of Political Science and International Studies as an Assistant Professor in 2023. His research agenda focuses on elections and legislatures, particularly in Africa. Within this context, he studies issues of elite and citizen political behaviour, as well as institutions. His work extensively utilizes advanced quantitative methods including text analysis and machine learning, as well as qualitative methods like elite interviews.
Dr Frantzeskakis holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in Political Science, and a Certificate in Computational Modelling from Michigan State University. He also holds an MA from the University of Missouri. He received his BA from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, West European Politics, and Oxford University Press.