Lutz F. Krebs is a political scientist with a focus on international relations and conflict research. Having completed graduate degrees in economics, political science, and humanitarian assistance, he focused on studying the impact of democratization processes on the likelihood of civil-war onset in ethnically heterogeneous countries such as Burundi and Yugoslavia. He has collaborated in the development of a new coding method for democratization periods and contributed to the launch of the peer-reviewed journal Living Reviews in Democracy. Between 2010 and 2018, Krebs served as the education director for the M.Sc. program in Public Policy and Human Development, offered jointly by United Nations University and Maastricht University. Since 2017, he is co-developing an interdisciplinary Bachelor in the field of Critical Global Studies.
