Dr. Nir Kosti is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting fellow at LMU Munich. He is a member of the ERC Advanced Research Project REGTRUST, led by Prof. David Levi-Faur.

Dr. Kosti’s research focuses on the growth of regulation, particularly examining their interplay with legislation. Previously, he was a PhD researcher at the department, focusing on regulatory discretion and employing computational text analysis tools for his research.

Dr. Kosti’s work has been recognized with two international awards for early career scholars: the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize for an outstanding paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, and the Giandomenico Majone Prize for an exceptional paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance.

On October 1, 2024, Dr. Kosti will begin a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science (GSI) at LMU Munich (beneficiary) and the University of Antwerp (secondment). During this fellowship, he will focus on studying EU regulatory design.

For more information, please visit: www.nirkosti.com