Dániel Mikecz graduated as political scientist at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He writes his doctoral thesis on the Hungarian global justice movement. Since 2015 he is a researcher at the Republikon Institute. From 2010 he holds various courses at the Eötvös Loránd University on protest movements and political participation. Since 2013 he is also a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Daniel publishes articles in academic journals and weekly, daily newspapers on social movements, protests and a political participation.