I am a political scientist currently working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam within the  Political Economy and Transnational Governance programme group. Prior to this position I was Assistant Professor  (part-time) at the European University Institute (EUI) within the framework of the SOLID project led by Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi. My research agenda focuses on European solidarity and risk-sharing, political behavior and public opinion formation, and social movements and protest. My work concentrates on the political dynamics spurred by the Covid crisis, the refugee crisis, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and their implications on EU polity development and integration more broadly. My recent and ongoing publications explore how the interactions between the supply and demand side of politics are shaping solidarity, risk-sharing, and welfare outcomes within the EU and its Member States. Beyond my substantive interests, I also focus on research methodology and R software development with a pluralist outlook. I work with surveys and survey experiments,  text-as-data solutions for semi-automated protest event analysis, and I develop analytic protocols and software for qualitative comparative analysis.

Research expertise

• EU politics and governance
• Solidarity and risk-sharing
• Political behavior and public opinion
• Protest and social movements

Research methods

• Quantitative methods (machine-learning, text mining, survey design, survey experiments)
• Qualitative methods (policy process analysis, QCA, focus groups)
• R software development

MA

• RDMS:  Researching the Middle: Medium-N Research Designs and Set-Theoretic Methods
• MARP: Solidarity under Pressure: Conflict, Inequality, and Politicization in a Crises-leaden EU