Team

Principal Investigator
Professor Thomas Chadefaux
Thomas studied public administration in Strasbourg, International politics in Geneva, and received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2009. His research interests include the causes of war, conflict forecasting, and political methodology. He is currently the principal investigator of ERC grant PaCE: Patterns of Conflict Escalation (2022-26).

PhD Student
Hannah Frank
Hannah studied Social Sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin and obtained a Master of Social Science with Peace and Conflict Studies as main field of study from Uppsala University. Her research interests include causes of armed conflict, transitions in armed conflict, and conflict prediction. She is currently completing the PhD program at Trinity College Dublin.

Research Fellow
Dr Yohan Park
Yohan is currently working in the PaCE project team at Trinity College Dublin as a research fellow. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the study of conflict processes and political economy, with a particular interest in the use of machine learning and statistical methods to analyse these topics.