Thomas M. Meyer has been professor for comparative politics at Humboldt University Berlin since October 2019. Previously, he was associate professor at the Department of Government at the University Vienna and worked for the austrian electoral study AUTNES. During his doctorate (2007-2010) at the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) he was inter alia employee at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

Thomas M. Meyer does research and teaching on political institutions and their role regarding the decision-making process, political competition within changing societies, political elite communication, formation of government and political behavior.