Welcome!
I am a Lecturer in Political Science (Research Methods) at the University of Melbourne. Before, I held positions as Assistant Professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden. I was Principal Investigator and Project Leader of the DFG-funded project on digital authoritarianism. The different sections of this website provide an overview of my publications, research projects, datasets, and teaching experience. You find my CV here.
My research interests are:
- Democracy, authoritarianism, regime change
- Political communication, internet politics, AI in politics
- Quantitative methods, computational text analysis, large language models (LLMs)
I am co-founder of QuantLab, a new network group aiming to bring together social scientists at the University of Melbourne and beyond to share insights in cutting-edge quantitative methods and research. I offer free online tutorials and accessible online workshops about how to use and fine-tune Large Language Models for text analysis on Instats, check out my on-demand online workshop on Using AI for Text Analysis in R (Introduction) or the advanced version Using AI for Text Analysis (Advanced Applications).