Curriculum Vitae
I’m an Assistant Professor of Computational Political Science at the University of Innsbruck, where I’m adffiliated with the Department of Political Science and the Digital Science Center (DiSC).
Previously, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics of the University of Cologne in Professor Sven-Oliver Proksch’s ERC-funded project MINORTIYRULE (01/2022-07/2024). I earned my PhD at the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich, where I was a member of Tarik Abou-Chadi’s research group (05/2018 - 12/2021). As a PhD and post-doctoral researcher, I visited the Hertie School’s Data Science Lab in Berlin and the Law, Economics, and Data Science group at the ETH Zurich.
I have studied Political Science and Sociology at the Humboldt University Berlin, and International Relations in the a joint master’s program of the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Potsdam. During my bachelor and master studies, I also spent a term at the University of Uppsala in Sweden and an academic year at the Political Science Department of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
I have gained professional experience as a data analyst in the federal election campaign of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 2017, as research assistant in two third-party funded projects at the chair of Comparative Politics of Humboldt University, and as teaching assistant and tutor in the lectures Statistics I and II in the Social Sciences bachelor program of the Humboldt University Berlin.