Dr. Manès Weisskircher is head of the BMBF junior research group REXKLIMA (Right-wing extremism versus climate protection?) at the Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and a visiting researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research, Social Science Research Center Berlin. He received his doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence in 2019. Dr. Weisskircher's research focuses on social movements, political parties, democracy and far-right actors in Germany and in international comparison.