Sofia Breitenstein is a postdoctoral fellow at BRIDGEGAP (Bridging the Gaps in Evidence, Regulation, and Impact of Anticorruption Policies). She completed a PhD in Political Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2020. Her dissertation analyzed citizens’ attitudes towards corruption and their consequences on political behaviour.

Her main areas of research are corruption accountability, public opinion, and political behaviour.

Previously, she was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Barcelona. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Quality of Government Institute (University of Gothenburg) and Griffith University.