Felix Petersen holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, MA in Political Theory from Goethe University Frankfurt, and BA in Political Science from Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He taught at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Goethe-University Frankfurt. In 2016 and 2017, Felix was a visiting researcher at Princeton University. Before joining the Hebrew University, he worked as a researcher in the department for Comparative Politics and Political Systems of Eastern Europe at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was researcher in the projects “The Influence of Constitutional Courts on the Process of Transformation” (BMBF) and “Research Lab: Constitutional Politics in Turkey I & II” (Mercator). His primary research and teaching areas are political theory, political history, constitutional politics, theories of democracy and autocracy, contentious politics, social constructionism, the Weimar Republic, German politics.