RESUME

Principal Investigator for the project Beyond Traditional Elites: Influencers' Agenda Setting Powers in the Digital Age, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (budget: CHF 815,000).

Lecturer and instructor at the Master's level.

Teaching graduate-level courses on research methods and introductory lectures on public policy.

Conducted research on online communication, platform governance, and agenda-setting using quantitative methods, text-as-data approaches, and modern machine learning techniques.

Affiliated with the ERC-funded project Problem Definition in the Digital Democracy and the Digital Democracy Lab.

Designed and taught courses for graduate and undergraduate students on, i.a., political agenda-setting and social policy.

Provided expert consultancy to a Swiss technology NGO for a multilingual analysis of public perceptions of AI in Swiss media, collaborating with AI industry experts.

Participated in national and international media appearances and panel discussions as an expert on the social implications of AI and the political power of entertainment figures.

Organized and co-moderated academic conferences, including the 2024 COPPR@Zurich and the 2022 Digital Democracy Workshop.

Researched political agenda-setting and responses to inequality as part of the DFG-funded project Varieties of Egalitarianism.

Developed and maintained a comprehensive data processing pipeline integrating expert knowledge, computational text classification, and crowd-coding.

Presented research findings at international conferences and contributed to joint publications.

Hosted by Professor Georg Vanberg.

Engaged in interdisciplinary academic exchanges and project development.

Designed and executed an independent research project on institutional agenda-setting and policymaking in multiparty governments.

Built a text analysis pipeline combining OCR and supervised machine learning to analyze ministerial policy responsibilities across three European countries.

Authored peer-reviewed publications (published in EJPR, PSRM, and WEP) and presented findings at international conferences.

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on political institutions and policymaking.