About

Jan Gniza is Policy Adviser at the Energy Systems and Market Design Lab UTN since October 2024. He supports the lab in connecting research with political decision-makers, international partners, and the public. Previously, he was researcher, lecturer and program coordinator at the Chair of Sociology and Empirical Research Methods at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2017. His dissertation was about public opinion on regional policy and reducing regional inequalities. He has published his work in highly recognized journals and presented them at many international conferences as well as at the EU Commission.

From 2010 to 2016, he studied for a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Socioeconomics at the FAU and the Indian Institute of Management in Udaipur, India. He worked alongside his studies as an intern at the European Representation of the Federal Employment Agency in Brussels and the GfK market research company in the field of international online surveys.

Interests

• Networking and outreach
• Policy impact evaluation
• Political change
• Global supply chains
• Public support for energy policies

Teaching experience

• Empirical Research Methods
• Digital Social Science – YouTube Scraping and Analysis
• Experimental Factorial survey Designs
• Project Seminar on Employer Reputation

Publications

• Gniza, J., Abraham, M., Lehmann, I., & Lorek, K. (2022). Expecting equality or efficiency? A factorial survey on the justice perception of regional redistributive policies. Regional Studies, 56(11), 1934-1948.
• Gniza, J., & Wrede, M. (2022). Public Acceptance of Regional Redistribution in Germany: A Survey Experiment on the Perceived Deservingness of Regions. Journal of Social Policy, 1-21.
• Abraham, M., Gniza, J., & Ostermann, K. (2021). How can employers signal trustworthiness to job seekers? Determinants of employer reputation. Rationality in Social Science: Foundations, Norms, and Prosociality, 269-292.
• Abraham, M., Brenner, T., Eberle, J., Gniza, J., Lehmann, I., Wardenburg, S., & Wrede, M. (2020). Gerechtigkeit schlägt Effizienz. Sozialer Fortschritt, 69(2), 73-96.