Michael Bruter

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Michael Bruter
Michael Bruter in 2012
Nationality	French
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux University of Hull University of Bordeaux University of Houston
Thesis	Understanding Identity Realignment: the Emergence of a Mass European Identity (2001)
Academic work
Discipline	Political Science
Sub-discipline	Electoral psychology, Electoral ergonomics, Political behaviour, Political psychology, Elections, Public opinion, Research methods, Comparative politics, Political participation, Political communication, Youth politics, Extremism, Protest politics, and European politics.
Institutions	London School of Economics and Political Science (2001-) University of Hull (1999-2001) University of Houston (1997-1999)
Website	www.epob.org/michael-a-bruter/

Michael Bruter is Professor of political science and European politics at the London School of Economics, where he directs the Electoral Psychology Observatory^[1] in collaboration with Sarah Harrison.^[2] He is also incoming Associate Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research at the LSE (from October 2024) and a co-founder of CODES Collaborative Democracy Solutions with Sarah Harrison, a venture also supported by the LSE which uses research findings from electoral psychology, electoral ergonomics, technology, and design to create new democratic tools. A discoverer of the sub-fields of electoral psychology and electoral ergonomics, Bruter is also a specialist in political behaviour, political psychology, elections, public opinion, research methods, comparative politics, political participation, political communication, youth politics, extremism, protest politics, and European politics.^[3]

Bruter has notably been invited to participate in the Nobel Prize Dialogue on the future of democracy [1]. He was also the first social scientist invited by the STOA Panel of the European Parliament to give their annual keynote speech on the future of science and technology [2] and his research has been discussed in an event at the United Nations [3].