About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Geneva and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MZES, University of Mannheim. I completed my PhD in Political Science in the Research Training Group DYNAMICS and the Hertie School in Berlin.

My research focuses on how institutions and their outputs shape citizens’ preferences and behaviour. I study this question through the lens of migration in two different ways. First, I examine the political legacies migrants carry from authoritarian and democratic regimes. Second, I investigate how the policies and information environments democracies build around migration shape attitudes of their own citizens. I use causal inference designs and survey experiments. My work is published in Political Science Research and Methods and Electoral Studies.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in one of these projects or to talk about common interests at korinna.lindemann[at]unige.ch or korinna.lindemann[at]uni-mannheim.de.

News

• November 2, 2026: I’m giving a talk at the Monday Seminar Series at Trinity College in Dublin.
• October 2026: My DFG-funded project “Shifting Narratives: Misperceptions and Factual Information on Immigration” has officially started!
• August 2026: New Preprint on attitudes toward national border controls available here.