I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the European Politics Research Group within the Center for Comparative and International Studies, ETH Zurich, an incoming postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University with the Polarization Research Lab, and an affiliated Senior Research Fellow at the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab.

My research focuses on comparative political behavior and political economy, with a particular emphasis on analyzing the interactions between citizens and elites in processes of democratic backsliding using (quasi-)experimental methods, surveys, and qualitative case studies. I concentrate on post-communist democracies and the United States.

My research interests also include German politics, particularly party organizations, electoral system change, and federal politics. I have examined revenues and expenses of regional party branches based on party finance data, offering insights into how subnational dynamics shape donation income and campaign expenditure. My work on democratic backsliding and German politics has appeared in Swiss Political Science Review, Party Politics, and Democratization.