Teaching experience

Seminars and lectures:

• University of Melbourne: Authoritarian Politics (BA, co-coordinator), Decoding Democracy (BA), Communicating Social Science Research (BA Honours), Researching Politics and Policy (PhD), Applied Political Science Project (BA, co-coordinator, extra seminar on Data Analysis and Coding in R)
• Goethe University Frankfurt: Measuring Democracy (MA)
• University of Gothenburg: Varieties of Democracy (MA, co-coordinator)
• Bard College Berlin: Introduction to Statistics (BA), Measuring Democracy and Autocracy (BA)
• University of Freiburg: Democratization & Authoritarianism (BA/MA), Qualitative Methods (MA)
• Central European University (CEU): Research Design, Introduction to Set Methods and QCA (Guest lecture), Studies in Comparative Politics (TA), Central Asia: Local Politics, Regional Dynamics, and the Geopolitics of Energy (TA).

Online methods workshops:

• Upcoming: KOMEX 2026 Methods Excellence Workshops (MethodsNET), University of Konstanz (February 2026): “Introduction to AI-driven Text Analysis”.
• Upcoming: KOMEX 2026 Methods Excellence Workshops (MethodsNET), University of Konstanz (February 2026): “Fine-Tuning Large Language Models”.
• Using AI for Text Analysis (Introduction), full-day online workshop on working with Large Language Models (LLMs) in R for text analysis, offered on the Instats platform, available on demand here.
• Using AI for Text Analysis (Advanced Applications), full-day online workshops on fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) in Python for text analysis, offered on the Instats platform, available on demand here.
• Quarto in RStudio: Writing Reproducible and Dynamic Research Papers, full-day online workshop offered on the Instats platform, available on demand here.

Further information:

In 2016, I graduated from the CTL Program for Excellence in Teaching in Higher Education at CEU. Contact me for further material such as my teaching philosophy, sample syllabi, slides or course evaluations.