Dr. Bert N. Bakker is Associate Professor of Political Communication at the University of Amsterdam and the coordinator of the MSCA Doctoral Network IP-PAD (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence & Democracy, www.ippad.eu). His research examines how (young) people experience and regulate emotions in response to political events, and how this shapes their political engagement and well-being. Through IP-PAD, he leads a European consortium exploring the emotional and neurobiological roots of political polarization and disinterest in adolescence. He is also co-founder of the Hot Politics Lab (www.hotpolitics.eu) an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the role of psychological processes in politics.
Bert Bakker (UvA)
