Eli Sapir (E.V.)

Eliyahu V. Sapir, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Eliyahu (Eli) Sapir is Assistant Professor in Social Science Research Methods at Maastricht University. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of European Union politics and social policy, comparative political behavior and comparative democratization. Sapir is engaged in methodological research, which involves survey methodology broadly defined, political methodology, social statistics, complex data-linking and architecture, text analysis and data visualization. Sapir specializes in the collections, management and analysis of large and complex (multi-dimensional) data structures.

Sapir started teaching in the Department of Political Science at Maastricht University in 2013. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral research fellow at Maastricht University (2011-2013). Prior to that, he was a Post-Doctoral researcher in the University of Nottingham, and member of the Technical Feasibility Working Group of the PIREDEU project (EES2009) (2009-2011). As a graduate student Sapir was Project Coordinator and country operator of the Israeli component of the SHARE Project (2004-2009).