Welcome! I am a Postdoc at Witten/Herdecke University, working on the DFG funded project zweitstimme.org. I'm also affiliated with the Humboldt Governance Lab.

My research sits at the intersection of comparative politics and quantitative methods. I study voter targeting, interest groups, and voting behavior, with a broader interest in how democratic representation works in practice—and how political competition, information, and organization shape whose preferences are heard.

In my dissertation, I analyzed how parties use and tailor their digital election ads. I was a member of the Research Training Group DYNAMICS, which is jointly organized by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Hertie School. During my PhD, I visited the LSE Department of Government. I completed my pre-doctoral studies at the Humboldt-Universität, spent a semester at CIDE in Mexico City, and have a background in mechanical engineering.

Beyond individual papers, I care about building research infrastructure that others can use. With PARTYPRESS, providing data is important to me: I want to create lasting value for the research community through transparency, reproducibility, and open data (and, where possible, open-source workflows). I’m especially interested in innovative data sources and new ways of measuring politics—treating data as something we can discover in many places, not only in familiar datasets, and turning it into well-documented resources that others can reuse and build on.