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178 | Contributors Norbert Merkovity is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Szeged, and at the National University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a Master's degree in Communication and Media Studies, as well as a PhD and a habilitation in Law and in Political Sciences. He has been the leader of several research projects, including projects funded by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund, and has also participated in various international projects in the framework of the COST Action and Horizon 2020 programmes, or the Jean Monnet Network. His main areas of research include political communication and attention-based politics. His latest book Attention-Based Politics in the Era of Social Media (A figyelemalapu politika a közösségi média korában) was published in 2018. Zsolt Nagy graduated in History and in Political Science from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He had been a civil servant at the Hungarian Ministry of Defence in various positions for almost two decades before he joined the European Defence Agency in Brussels, Belgium, where he currently works as a Policy Officer. His main areas of expertise are European defence policy and international military operations. He regularly contributes to different studies and journal articles, and gives lecture on these matters. Büsra Özyüksel graduated from the Department of International Relations of Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. She obtained her Masters degree from the European Studies Sub-Department of International Relations at the University of Pécs in Hungary. She started her doctoral studies in September 2020 at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Szeged in Hungary in the framework of the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship programme. Her main area of research is political psychology in international relations, in the context of populism in particular. She is also the European Studies O-Internship coordinator of the Turkey International Relations Studies Association (TUIC). Zoltan Simon graduated in History and in Law, and holds a PhD in Political Science and a habilitation from Eötvös Loränd University in Budapest, Hungary. He is an Honorary Associate Professor and Lecturer at the Department of International Relations and European Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the same University. He also was an Instructor at Boston University Brussels and at Eszterházy Károly University in Eger, Hungary, for years. He has been living in Brussels, Belgium, and working in the European Parliament in the field of EU external relations since 2005. His main areas of research include the decision-making and interest representation systems of the European Union,
