Jil Kamerling is researcher at the Institute of Political Science at Heidelberg University with a primary interest in institutions in autocracies, diffusion and authoritarian learning. Together with Tanja Eschenauer-Engler and Prof. Aurel Croissant, Jil co-created the The Political Roles of the Military (PRM) dataset (http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/politikwissenschaften/personal/croissant/forschung_en.html).