#  Thijs van Dooremalen 

Assistant Professor, Leiden University.

Associate, Weatherhead Scholars Program (Fall 2021). 

Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2022).

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Events, crises, extreme weather, climate change, cross-national comparisons, cultural sociology, political sociology.

Thijs van Dooremalen is an Assistant Professor within the Governance of Crises research group of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. He researches how and why events can cause transformations within national public spheres (media, politics, policy making). He employs a mixed methods perspective to do so (big data along with qualitative content analysis) and has analyzed this for a wide diversity of cases: 9/11 and other terrorist attacks, but also elections, Covid and Eurovision. At the moment, Thijs is particularly interested in the impact of extreme weather events on climate crisis politics.

*This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (last updated 12.27.2025)*



 

 

 





 

 

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