CV

Experience

  • Feb 2026 – Jul 2026 Visiting Researcher CEVIPOF, Sciences Po Visiting researcher at the Center for Political Research (CEVIPOF), hosted by Kevin Arcenaux.
  • Sep 2024 – Present SNSF Ambizione Grant Holder University of Zurich – Department of Political Science Principal Investigator on “Beyond Traditional Elites: Influencers’ Agenda Setting Powers in the Digital Age” (SNSF, CHF 815,000), leading a team on digital governance and the political impact of platform architectures.
  • May 2021 – Aug 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Zurich – Department of Political Science Researched online communication, platform governance, and agenda-setting; affiliated with the ERC-funded PRODIGI project and the Digital Democracy Lab.
  • Sep 2020 – Apr 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Konstanz – Department of Politics and Public Administration Researched political agenda-setting and responses to inequality as part of the DFG-funded project “Varieties of Egalitarianism.”
  • Sep 2019 – Feb 2020 Visiting Scholar Duke University – Department of Political Science Collaborated with faculty and researchers on institutional policy-making topics.
  • Sep 2017 – Aug 2020 PhD Candidate Aarhus University – Department of Political Science Designed and executed independent research on institutional agenda-setting in multiparty governments; built a text analysis pipeline combining OCR and supervised machine learning to analyze ministerial policy responsibilities across three European countries.

Education

  • Sep 2017 – Dec 2020 PhD in Political Science Aarhus University Dissertation: “Beyond Portfolios: Bureaucratic Issue Attention in Coalition Governments.”
  • Sep 2015 – Sep 2016 MSc in Comparative Social Policy University of Oxford With Distinction.
  • Apr 2015 – Sep 2017 MA in Politics and Public Administration (Double Degree) University of Konstanz Specialized in policy analysis, agenda setting, and quantitative research methods.
  • Sep 2011 – Mar 2015 BA in Politics and Public Administration University of Konstanz Includes an Erasmus exchange at the Department of Government, Uppsala University (2013-2014).

Skills & Methods

  • Methods
    • Text-as-data & NLP
    • Time-series cross-section analysis
    • Survey & online experiments
    • Causal inference
    • Process tracing
  • Tools
    • R
    • Python
    • Stata

Grants

  • 2026 IPZ Research Grant: Influencer-Based Pro-Russian Propaganda Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Universität Zürich CHF 9,392 · Co-Investigator (with Nina Steffen)
  • 2025 VIRENA: Virtual Arena for Research and Education DIZH Founder Call CHF 150,000 · Co-Investigator (with E. Hoes and F. Gilardi)
  • 2025 Online Communication Consortium UniEuropa EUR 40,000 · Co-Investigator (with S. Müller, R. Dassonneville, et al.)
  • 2024 Beyond Traditional Elites: Influencers’ Agenda Setting Powers Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF Ambizione) CHF 815,000 · Principal Investigator
  • 2024 Replicating Foundational Online Survey Experiments University of Zurich CHF 9,000 · with E. Hoes
  • 2024 Opensource Online Platform Simulator (OOPS) University of Zurich CHF 30,000 · with E. Hoes and F. Gilardi
  • 2019 Travel Grant School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University DKK 30,000
  • 2018 Beyond Portfolios (Dissertation Project Funding) School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University EUR 10,054 · Project funding for doctoral research
  • 2018 Seed Funding School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University DKK 75,000
  • 2017 Aarhus University PhD Fellowship Aarhus University DKK 1,100,000
  • 2017 EUI PhD Scholarship (Declined) DAAD EUR 60,000 · Declined in favour of Aarhus University’s PhD Fellowship

Awards

  • 2023 Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize West European Politics For “From bureaucratic capacity to legislation: how ministerial resources shape governments’ policy-making capabilities”
  • 2019 Best Paper (runner up) CAP Conference For “Beyond Ministerial Portfolios: Investments in Bureaucratic Expertise”
  • 2019 Best Paper Nomination APSA – European Politics and Society For “Ministerial Issue Dominance in Two European Countries”