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Hanna Wass is an Associate Professor in Political Science and Senior University Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences. She holds the title of Docent in Faculty Common Matters and has served as Vice-Dean for societal interaction, equality, and sustainability since 2022. Wass is an internationally recognized expert in democracy, representation, and political behavior. Her research explores voter turnout, political participation, the effects of age, generation, health, and socioeconomic factors on voting, as well as generational political engagement and partisan influences. She leads work packages in projects funded by the Academy of Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the European Commission, including as principal investigator of the NATOpoll project on dynamic democratic support for Finnish defense policy and co-principal investigator of the SPACE project on resilient use of space. Wass is a founding member of the Finnish Election Study Consortium, serving as co-principal investigator for its 2015 and 2019 modules. She supervises doctoral students in the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences and the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change, and is a member of the Helsinki Inequality Initiative.