Thank you for visiting my website! I am currently a doctoral researcher in political science at the European University Institute in Florence, supervised by Professor Simon Hix. 

I am broadly interested in all aspects of political behavior and communication. My current research focuses on two main questions:

1) How does media coverage of the most salient and contentious issues of our time - such as immigration and climate change - influence the political attitudes and behaviors of ordinary people?

2) How can we (as social and behavioral scientists) enhance political participation in democratic societies?

Methodologically, my main expertise lies in the areas of survey research, experiments, and causal inference with observational data. Beyond my own empirical work, I actively develop methods and tools to improve the robustness of social-scientific research.

I have published articles in academic journals like Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Research and Methods, European Journal of Political Research, and Research & Politics, among others. My research has been covered by news outlets such as The Guardian and Financial Times.

Being a quantitative social scientist, I also identify as a member of the broader open science community. In this capacity, I am a frequent contributor to various interdisciplinary big-team collaborations on the topics of metascience and replicability, some of which have been published in journals like Royal Society Open Science and Journal of Open Psychology Data.

Please feel free to click through this website to find out more about my research, my teaching experience, and my curriculum vitae. If you have questions or want to get in touch with me, you can find my contact details below. You can also contact me if you do not have access to any of my publications. I will gladly provide pre-prints of all my published articles and working papers.