Dominik Hangartner is associate professor in the LSE Department of Government and Faculty Co-director of the Stanford – Zurich Immigration Policy Lab. Since obtaining his PhD in 2011 and promotion to tenured associate professor after only two years in 2013, he has been a scholarly comet. He has produced in this short time 22 published or forthcoming peer reviewed articles in some of the best political science (e.g. American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review) and interdisciplinary (e.g. Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) journals.

Hangartner’s research combines fieldwork and statistics to evaluate the impact of political institutions and integration policies on the lives of immigrants and their host societies. By cleverly exploiting a treasure trove of natural and field experiments, he and his team made important contributions to our understanding of, inter alia, the fate of immigrant minorities under direct democracy and the dangers of a “tyranny of the majority”; the impact of naturalization on long-term social and political integration of immigrants; the detrimental effects of lengthy asylum procedures on the subsequent economic integration of refugees; and the economic and religious concerns that shape attitudes towards asylum-seekers across Europe.

His research has won several awards, most recently the £100,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize, and has been widely covered by the media (e.g. CNBC, Al Jazeera, Swiss Radio and Television, New York Times, Washington Post). By providing much-needed empirical evidence on some of the world’s most hotly debated issues, his work does not only get frequently published in the very best scholarly outlets but is also directly relevant for designing better migration policies.