Ivo Bantel is an affiliate researcher at the University of Zurich’s Department of Political Science and Research. He completed his PhD at the University of Zurich (Chair of Comparative Politics and Empirical Democracy Research), was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, and was a fellow of the Excellence Program for PhD students of the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich. His research interests include polarization, European far-right politics, political violence, and computational social science methods.