Bertel Hansen is a Ph.D.-fellow from the Copenhagen University Department of Political Science. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Political Science from Copenhagen University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. During his time as a student at the Department of Political Science, Bertel TA’ed and lectured for three semesters in basic and advanced methodology, focusing on quantitative methods, and has since been teaching advanced statistics for political scientist at the master’s level.   

Bertel’s dissertation inspects the causes and consequences of civil war using quantitative methods and realist IR theory. The main contribution of his dissertation is empirical and consists of testing hypotheses derived from realist-inspired models on various sets of conflict data – some existing and some constructed from scratch – with an eye to solving real-world policy questions.

Bertel will work at the Europe Center as an Anna Lindh Fellow from the 8^th of February till the 21^st of June. During this period, his main focus will be on completing and submitting two papers from his dissertation – one on the effect of conflict on vote rigging and the other on the dangers of the president’s seat shifting from one ethnic group to another.