Katharina Pfaff is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government, where she is involved in conducting the European Values Study. Previously, Katharina was a postdoctoral researcher in the research project “Digitize! - Computational Social Sciences in the Digital and Social Transformation” at the Department of Government, Vienna University of Economics and Business, and a visiting researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She received her doctorate in economics from the University of Hamburg.

Her research focuses on public opinion, political participation, and conflicts, especially protests. Methodologically, she works primarily quantitatively, using text data and computer-assisted methods, among other things. One of her main areas of interest is survey research methods, such as questionnaire development, survey design, and measurement quality.