Welcome!
I am a Senior Lecturer in Political Science (Research Methods) at the University of Melbourne and an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Fellow. 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. 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, autocratization
- Political communication, authoritarian informationalism
- Quantitative and computational methods, 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 online workshops on how to use LLMs as research tools. Check out our new quallmer R package - an easy-to-use toolbox for qualitative researchers to quickly apply LLMs to code and analyze their data.