About

I am a tenure-track assistant professor (‘Juniorprofessorin’) for Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina. Previously, I was a Postdoc at the Chair of Policy Analysis at the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich (UZH) where I was a member of the Digital Democracy Lab which combines my favorite topic - democracy - with my favorite methods, namely computational social science and particularly text analysis. I am also a co-organizer of the Summer School for Women in Political Methodology and was one of the founding members of the Computational Methods Working Group at the University of Zurich.

In December 2019, I defended my PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence which examined the politicization of immigration and democracy. As part of my PhD, I was also involved in the ERC research project Political Conflict in the Shadow of the Great Recession (POLCON) led by Hanspeter Kriesi. Before my PhD, I obtained an MA in Political Science from Central European University with a specialization in political research methodology and studied in Frankfurt, Madrid and Exeter during my BA in Sociology and History of Science.

Most of my current research focuses on democracy, digital politics and immigration, often through the lens of party politics. Although I study different European countries, I am particularly interested in Hungary, Poland and Central-Eastern Europe. Methodologically, I often work with text. This has led me from qualitative interviews to quantitative text analysis, webscraping and machine learning. Much of my recent research also includes surveys and survey experiments.