ABOUT

Academic Employment

2025-2028 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Vienna, Department of Government & Department of Sociology
Project: „The Workplace as a Site of Political Preference Formation. How Bridging Institutions Strengthen Democracy [BridgeDem]“
PI: Markus Wagner; Co-Adviser: Nadia Steiber

2025-2026 Visiting Fellow
Harvard University, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Invited by Peter Hall

2024-25 Part-Time Assistant Professor
European University Institute, Department of Social and Political Sciences
Teaching Qualitative & Mixed Methods for SPS Doctoral Researchers

2023-2025 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow
European University Institute, Department of Social and Political Sciences
Mentor: Anton Hemerijck

2021-2024 Co-PI, “Building Bridges in Polarized Societies”
Interdisciplinary research project funded by City of Vienna MA-7 with € 149,000, Austrian Film Academy, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw)

2021-2022 Temporary Lecturer (Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement)
Sciences Po Paris, Department of Political Science

Education

2017-2023 PhD in Political Science (Comparative Politics)
Sciences Po Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) & Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)
Supervisors: Jan Rovny, Florence Haegel
Jury: Bruno Palier, Paul Marx, Hanna Schwander, Line Rennwald
Advisory committee: Nonny Mayer, Colin Hay, Florence Faucher, Matthias Thiemann

2019-2020 Visiting Student Researcher
University of California, Berkeley, Sociology Department
Invited by Michael Burawoy & Arlie Russel-Hochschild

2016-2017 MA (Res) Social Sciences (Comparative Study of Development)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Completed with distinction (“Mention très bien”)

2014-2015 MA International Political Economy
King’s College London

2009-2013 BA Transcultural Communication
University of Vienna
Translation/ Interpreting of Russian, English, German

2011-2012 Academic Exchange
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
“Joint Study” scholarship