About me

I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin. I have completed my PhD at University College London (UCL) in Fall 2023 and held visiting appointments at Yale, Nuffield College Oxford, and the University of Vienna.

My research examines key aspects of the transformation of European politics and societies, including the fragmentation of the European party landscape, political conflict surrounding the green transformation, and the increasing relevance of political identities in democratic competition. Methodologically, I am interested in experimental designs and computational text analysis.

Publications

Green but Cautious. How Preferences on Fiscal Integration and Redistribution shape Public Opinion of the European Green Deal (with Tarik Abou-Chadi, Jannik Jansen and Nils Redeker)
Journal of European Public Policy (conditionally accepted)

Winning Votes and Changing Minds: Do Populist Arguments Affect Candidate Evaluations and Issue Preferences? (with Benjamin Lauderdale and Christopher Wratil)
British Journal of Political Science | Paper

United in Success, Fragmented in Failure. The Moderating Effect of Government Satisfaction on Affective Polarization between Coalition Partners (with Jochem Vanagt)
European Journal of Political Research | Paper

Does Mainstream Populism Work? Populist Rhetoric and the Electoral Fortunes of Mainstream Parties
Political Science Research & Methods | Paper

The Challenger Advantage – How Challenger Parties disrupt Mainstream Party Dominance in the European Parliament
Journal of European Public Policy | Paper | Podcast | Coverage by Deutschlandfunk

Reports & Policy Briefs

Potenziale konservativer Narrative für den Klimaschutz
In collaboration with heimatwurzeln e.V. | Paper | Coverage by Deutschlandfunk, der SPIEGEL

Debunking the Backlash - Uncovering European Voters‘ Climate Preferences (with Tarik Abou-Chadi, Jannik Jansen and Nils Redeker)
Jacque Delors Centre Policy Paper | Paper & Data | Coverage by the Guardian, der SPIEGEL, Euractiv and others

Projects

Mainstream Party Rhetoric and Affective Polarization towards Radical Right Parties (with Ivo Bantel)
Revise & Resubmit

What Works Against Populist Rhetoric? The Effects of Pluralist and Democratic Elitist Counter-Arguments on Democratic Attitudes and Vote Choice (with Julia Leschke)
Under Review

The Politics behind the Policies. Party Competition over Climate Politics and Public Preferences on Green Policies (with Tarik Abou-Chadi)
Work in Progress

Attitudes towards Inclusionary Identity Politics: Abstract Support, Concrete Skepticism (with Peter Dinesen, Kim Sønderskov and Matthias Avina)
Work in Progress

What Advances Minority Causes in Identity Politics? Experimental Evidence on Antagonistic and Universalistic Arguments (with Peter Dinesen and Kim Sønderskov)
Work in Progress

Teaching

I have experience in teaching classes in Political Science and Data Science across all levels. Currently, I am lecturing an MA class on Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion at Humboldt University. Previously, I was a teaching assistant for courses covering Quantitative Text Analysis and Machine Learning at the LSE’s Department of Methodology, as well as for Measurement in Data Science, Causal Inference, and an introductory course on Comparative Politics at UCL. In addition, I regularly teach and organise workshops for civic education programmes in Germany and Eastern Europe.