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I am Junior Professor (W1, with tenure track to W2) of Computational Social Science at the University of Bremen, based at the Institute for Sociology and SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, and a faculty member of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Previously, I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where I remain affiliated as a guest researcher. I received my doctorate from the European University Institute in 2020.

My research focuses on protest movements, political engagement, party competition, political communication, democracy, and policy conflict, combined with applied quantitative methods — particularly quantitative text analysis, automated event extraction, and, increasingly, the use of AI and large language models in political research. I currently co-lead several large collaborative projects, including ProTest, a Horizon Europe-funded study of pro- and anti-democratic protest dynamics in consolidated, new, and developing European democracies, and two subprojects within the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 1342 “Global Dynamics of Social Policy,” on the political consequences of welfare state design and on contentious policy episodes. I am furthermore interested in developing new methods to measure positions, polarization, and resonance in political communication and public debate, and in studying how AI agents and large language models shape political information-seeking and democratic attitudes.

My work has been published in journals including West European Politics, Political Behavior, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Science Research and Methods, European Political Science Review, Social Movement Studies, Swiss Political Science Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Royal Society Open Science, Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, and Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. I am engaged in public debates on protest, radicalization, and electoral behaviour and have contributed expert opinions to ARD, ZDF, Arte, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Deutschlandfunk, Berliner Tagesspiegel, France24, El País, NDR, rbb, and L’Express, among others.