Florian Keppeler
Florian Keppeler

Florian Keppeler

Associate Professor, King Frederik Center for Public Leadership
Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark

Affiliated Scholar, The People Lab, Harvard Kennedy School

Much of my work focuses on the people who deliver public services: how to attract them, how to support them, and how AI can help public managers make better decisions. I run the field studies inside the public organizations that face the problem. The findings have been cited by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank and the Danish Government Commission on Healthcare.

My research uses large-scale field experiments and causal inference methods. It focuses on the following topics:

Recent publications

How Ensembling AI and Public Managers Improves Decision-Making Beryl Radin Award 2026 Keppeler, F., Borchert, J., Pedersen, M. J., & Lehmann Nielsen, V. (2025). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 35(3), 261–276.
Financial Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial Ternovski, J., Jilke, S., Keppeler, F., & Vogel, D. (2025). JAMA Network Open, 8(2), e2458542.

Selected research projects

TRUST-AI2026–2030

Citizen trust in AI government. Project TRUST-AI delivers crucial new knowledge to guide a responsible implementation of AI, one that builds and secures citizen trust (DFF – Independent Research Fund Denmark, 6.3 Mio DKK, Co-Principal Investigator together with PI Mogens Jin Pedersen).

MORE2024–2028

Megastudy on Recruitment. Project MORE researches how to sustainably recruit, select, and retain skilled international nursing staff (Carlsberg Foundation, 9.1 Mio DKK, Work-package lead together with PI Christian B. Jacobsen and Diana Galos).

CV and publication list

CV and publications (PDF)

Profiles

Contact

Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
Bartholins Allé 7, Building 1340
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Email address