Welcome!
I am an Assistant Professor in European Comparative Politics at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, and a member of the Connected Politics Lab. Since 2025, I am also the co-PI of the CONSTRUCT project, together with Marius Sältzer (University of Oldenburg) and Tristan Klingelhöfer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). With a team of phd students, research assistants and a postdoc fellow, we investigates whether, through their communication with voters, political parties and politicians actually construct the identities of the social groups they represent, rather than simply appealing to existing identities or groups (2025–2029).
My research focuses on comparative European party politics, group appeals, political representation, intra-party candidate selection, and text-as-data, motivated by questions of the representative relationship between political parties and voters as a core aspect of modern democracies. Specifically, I examine how political parties as collective bodies of representation go about shaping their relationship with society. I use computational text analysis methods to examine patterns of group-based appeals in parties’ election materials over time and across countries and survey methods to test how voters perceive group appeals in the context of political representation.
I received my PhD in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2021.
From 2021 to 2023 I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations, working with WP6 of the Horizon2020 Observatory of Political Texts in European Democracies—A European Research Infrastructure (OPTED) Project.
From 2023 to 2025 I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I worked on the GAPREP project investigating the relationship between group appeals and political representation.
And from January to August 2026 I was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's School of Government, Department of Political Science and International Studies, working on the TwiceAsGood project.
Here you can find more about my research, the GAPREP project, publications and data.
Here you can also find my Google Scholar profile, ORCID and GitHub pages.