Welcome,

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Transformations of Democracy Unit, directed by Daniel Ziblatt. I am interested in Comparative Politics and Political Behavior, with a focus on challenges to contemporary democracies. My primary research areas cover democratic representation, participation and voter mobilization. I also study the emergence of polarization and its implications for democratic governance and resilience.

As a postdoc, I visited Nuffield College at the University of Oxford (Summer 2024) and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (Fall 2022). In 2022, I obtained my doctoral degree at the Chair of Comparative Political Behavior of Humboldt University Berlin and graduated from DYNAMICS – a joint PhD program of Humboldt University and the Hertie School.

My work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and West European Politics. My research has received recognition in the form of the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize (2025) for outstanding work appearing in West European Politics Methodologically, I employ field and survey experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and quantitative text analysis using large language models. For a comprehensive overview of my ongoing projects and previous publications, please visit my Research page.

I also enjoy teaching classes on political behavior, research design and applied research methods.

A current version of my CV is available here.