Patrick A. Mello is Assistant Professor of International Security at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University Berlin and a Habilitation in Political Science from the TUM School of Governance at the Technical University of Munich.
His research focuses on the domestic politics of international security and qualitative research methods such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). His book “Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict” received the 2015 Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association (DVPW).