RESUME
Experience
2024 - Present
SNSF Ambizione Grant Holder
Department of Political Science,
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
- Principal Investigator on the SNSF-funded project "Beyond Traditional Elites: Influencers’ Agenda Setting Powers in the Digital Age," which investigates the political influence of entertainment personalities.
- Employing computational social science methods and quantitative modeling to examine agenda-setting processes in both digital and traditional environments.
- Lecturer and instructor at the Master's level.
2021 - 2024
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Political Science,
University of Zurich,
Switzerland
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Utilizing quantitative techniques and text-as-data to explore subjects like policymaking, digitalization, and the impact of social media on democracies.
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Associated with the ERC-funded project "Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy."
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Member of the Digital Democracy Lab.
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Designing and instructing courses for both graduate and undergraduate students.
2020 - 2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Politics & Public Administration,
University of Konstanz,
Germany
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Developed and maintained a data processing pipeline that synthesizes expert knowledge, computational text classification, and crowd coding.
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Contributed to the DFG-funded project "Varieties of Egalitarianism."
2019 - 2020
Visiting PhD Fellow
Department of Political Science,
Duke University,
USA
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Hosted by Professor Georg Vanberg
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Continuation of dissertation
2017 - 2020
Doctoral Researcher
Department of Political Science,
Aarhus University,
Denmark
- Created, organized, and executed a personal research project focused on political agenda setting within multiparty governments.
- Established a text analysis pipeline that integrates OCR and supervised learning to gather ministerial policy responsibilities across three European.
- Designed and instructed courses for both graduate and undergraduate students.
Education
2020
Ph.D. in Political Science
Department of Political Science,
Aarhus University,
Denmark
2016
M.Sc. in Comparative Social Policy
Department of Social Policy and Intervention,
University of Oxford,
UK
2017
M.A. in Politics and Public Administration
Department of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Konstanz,
Germany
2014
B.A. in Politics and Public Administration
Department of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Konstanz,
Germany