Maik Fielitz works at the Institute for Peace Studies and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. He is a PhD candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt, and he studied political science, history and peace and conflict studies in Jena, Marburg and Athens. Fielitz is a fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). His work focuses on comparative and European perspectives on right-wing extremism, political movements and social change.