Democracy and political behavior
I study how polarization and political violence shape democratic representation and participation. My work in comparative politics and political behavior also examines voter mobilization and democratic resilience. I use field and survey experiments, quasi-experimental designs, and quantitative text analysis using large language models.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Transformations of Democracy Unit, directed by Daniel Ziblatt.
All publications and working papers
About
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 appeared in The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and West European Politics. In 2025, my research was awarded the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize for outstanding work appearing in West European Politics.
I also teach classes on political behavior, research design, and applied research methods.