Dr Baluch has obtained his PhD at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. He is a teaching and researching German Politics, Euroscepticism, post-war statebuilding, populism and the politicisation of trade agreements. He is, furthermore, supporting and advising the department regarding the recruitment of UG programmes involving German.

Media Outreach:

• quoted in the Independent on the persistence of Nazi terminology in modern Germany.
• article on the new Chancellor of Austria in the Conversation
• article on the atrophy on the German party system published in the Political Studies Association
• contribution for Euronews on the escalating challenge of climate refugees
• IPR blog post on Germany vs Brexit
• IPR blog post on the psychogenesis of xenophobia and Political Islam in Germany