Jonas W. Schmid is research assistant of the project "Financial liberalization and authoritarian survival in the muslim world" (FLAS), coordinated by Dr. Fulya Apaydin. He holds a BA in Political Science and Humanities by the Technical University of Dresden. He holds a MA Research in Political Sciences and Politics and Public Administration, in a double Master degree jointly taught by the UPF and the University of Konstanz.

He is enrolled in the Ph.D programme in Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Previously he worked as a research assistant in several projects investigating right-wing movements in Germany and the living conditions of elderly citizens, and as an intern at the Infas Institute for Applied Social Research (Bonn, Germany).