Welcome!
I am a PhD student in Political Science at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim. I hold a Master of Science in Data Science for Public Policy (Hertie School) and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (University of Bremen).
My dissertation examines how political elites view and semantically associate the terms “left” and “right” across the political spectrum. By using open-ended survey responses from federal election candidate surveys, I disentangle the associations of left and right and provide a methodological framework for a) measuring the attitudes and b) mapping ideological semantics by political position. From a theoretical perspective, I argue and theorize that the political context, namely political positions and legacies, matters for how ideology is viewed ans associated. Methodologically, I rely on different tools of applied text analysis, such as sentiment analysis and embedding-based methods to analyze the semantic structure.
Previously, among others, I held positions at POLITICO, the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and the ParlGov database at the University of Bremen. Broadly speaking, my research interests include political behavior, political psychology, comparative politics, and computational social science.
Here you can find my CV.