Alejandro Plaza Reveco
Doctoral Researcher
Research Training Group "DYNAMICS"
Hertie School and
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Email:alejandro.plaza.reveco@hu-berlin.de
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First Supervisor: Prof. Steffen Mau, PhD
Profile
Alejandro Plaza is a Doctoral Researcher of the Research Training Group "The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy" (DYNAMICS), jointly organized by the Hertie School and the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin.
He holds a Bachelor in Sociology from the University of Chile and a Master of Arts in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In his master thesis, he explores specific aspects of class politics, particularly how economic development and inequality influence rates of social mobility, and thereby shape preferences for redistribution and welfare policies.
Until 2022, he served as Technical Coordinator of the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey(ELSOC) at the Center for the Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES). During his time, he was responsible for questionnaire design, database assembly, inconsistency analysis, and writing technical documentation and research reports. Alejandro co-founded a social network analysis laboratory (RedesLab), in which he uses this approach to study different aspects of Chilean social reality, such as the study of voluntary civil society organizations and homophily as an indicator of social cohesion.
His main interests are welfare states, social stratification, public opinion, social network analysis, and quantitative methods.
Dissertation Title
The political consequences of demographics heterogeneity: A psychosocial approach (working title)