After receiving an M.A. in Political Science from Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, in 1996, Aurel Croissant started his career as Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Universities of Mainz and Heidelberg. In 2001, he received a doctoral degree (Dr. phil) in Political Science from Mainz University and was promoted to a non-tenured position as ‘Wissenschaftlicher Assistent’ at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg. In 2004, he accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Since 2006, he has been Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University. For more information, please refer to the curriculum vitae Adobe. 

His main research interests include civil–military relations, democratic governance and political institutions, democratization studies, party politics, civil society, conflict research, modern authoritarianism and the politics of East and Southeast Asia, which is documented in more than 150 scholarly publications in German, English, Indonesian, Russian and Spanish, including several monographs and edited volumes and articles in journals such as Party Politics, Democratization, Electoral Studies, Armed Forces & Society, Pacific Review, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of East Asian Studies, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Journal of the German Association for Political Science (PVS), Journal of Political Science (ZPol) and Comparative Governance and Politics (ZfVP). For a comprehensive list of his publications, please refer to the publications document Adobe.