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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1647-5040

Research Interests

• Attitudes towards the welfare state and its subsystems, in particular the old-age pension system
• Social structure and political psychology across the life course
• Research on prejudice
• Advanced structural equation modelling and survey methodology

Current Research Projects

• Stability and Change in the Legitimation of the German Pension System
• A factorial survey experiment on the causal effects of trigger points on political attitudes (in collaboration with Pascal Kolkwitz-Anstötz, GESIS). Pre-registration is available here: https://www.psycharchives.org/en/item/bc58ce1e-961e-4f3e-8c43-6ccf68ffda82
• Web probing and an online survey on the types and attitudes towards non-antisemitic criticism of Israel and antisemitism at German universities (in collaboration with Pascal Kolkwitz-Anstötz, GESIS)
• The influence of occupational self-direction (Kohn 1989) on subjective orientations and political attitudes (in collaboration with Peter Schmidt, JLU Giessen)

Biography

• Since 2026, Research Assistant on the project ‘Stability and Change in the Legitimacy of Old-Age Provision’, German Centre for Ageing Issues (DZA), Berlin
• 2024–2026 Student research assistant on the project ‘Higher Housing Costs? Trends in the burden of housing costs over the life course since the 1990s’ and on the German Ageing Survey team, German Centre for Ageing Research (DZA), Berlin
• 2020–2024 Student research assistant at the Chair of Methods in Empirical Political Science; tutor in the winter semester for ‘Statistics and SPSS’ and ‘Statistics and R’ under Aribert Heyder, Philipps University of Marburg
• 2022–2024 Student research assistant on the project “Learning to Live Democracy 2.0: Political Socialisation at the Start of Lower Secondary Education”, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Since 2025: M.A. Research Training Programme in Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2022–2024: B.A. in Sociology, Philipps University of Marburg
• 2018–2022: B.A. in Political Science, Philipps University of Marburg and Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Selected Publications

• Simonson, J., Platt, O., Weinhardt, M. (2026). Einstellungen zur Alterssicherung in der zweiten Lebenshälfte: Hohe Zustimmung zu Gleichheit und Äquivalenzprinzip. [DZA Aktuell 02/2026]. Berlin: Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen. https://doi.org/10.60922/f4gt-q477
• Romeu Gordo, L., Lozano Alcántara, A., Ehrlich, U., Platt, O., Kelle, N. (2026). Wohnkostenbelastung im Lebensverlauf Ungleichheiten nach sozialer und räumlicher Lage. WSI Mitteilungen 2/2026, 168-178. https://doi.org/10.5771/0342-300X-2026-2-168
• Kolkwitz-Anstötz, P., Platt, O., Schmidt, P., Heyder, A. (2025). Measurement of democratc values: a cross-country comparison with ESS round 10. Frontiers in Political Science 7, 1612506. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2025.1612506
• Bergmann, W., Heyder, A., Kolkwitz-Anstötz, P., Platt, O., Schmidt, P. (2024). Antisemitism in East and West Germany. Three decades after the wall: a comparative longitudinal study considering age-period-cohort effects. Heller, A., Schmidt, P. (eds.). Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall. German Unification and Transformation Research. (pp. 125-152). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003427469-8