Curriculum Vitae
Since January 2022, I’m 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. I have 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 from May 2018 to December 2021. During my doctoral studies, I have spent a term as visiting PhD researcher in the Hertie School’s Data Science Lab in Berlin and participated in several international conferences, workshops, and summer schools.
Previously, 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.