About

⊕ Department of Government

⊕ Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER)

⊕ AUTNES Dataverse

⊕ Data Science @ Uni Vienna

Julia Partheymüller is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. She is a member of the Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER), where she coordinates the survey data collection of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES). She is also a member of the Research Network Data Science at the University of Vienna.

Her research is situated within comparative politics, with a focus on democracy in Austria, Germany, and the European Union, as well as comparisons across European countries. Her work addresses three interrelated areas. First, she examines elections, voting behaviour, and the dynamics of public opinion, studying election administration and electoral integrity alongside political attitudes, participation, and institutional trust. Second, her research on political communication investigates how traditional and digital media, misinformation and disinformation, perceived threats, and psychological biases shape political beliefs and behaviour. Third, her interdisciplinary work examines policy design, policy communication, and organisational design, particularly in public health and crisis management, with attention to citizens’ responses and trust in expertise and government.

Methodologically, she specialises in survey research and quantitative methods, with extensive experience in large-scale data collection, survey design, survey experiments, and longitudinal analysis. Her work also incorporates text-as-data approaches and content analysis, including linking media content with survey data. In interdisciplinary collaborations, she combines quantitative and qualitative methods to study political and societal questions from complementary perspectives. She also contributes to the development of research data infrastructure, making data and digital resources available to the wider scientific community.

She previously worked as a DAAD Lecturer at the University of Essex and was part of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) team at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). She holds a doctorate in the Social Sciences from the University of Mannheim and studied Political Science at Free University Berlin and the University of Hamburg.