Welcome
I am Associate Professor for Political Science, within Public Policy & Administration, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. My research interests include Comparative Political Behavior, Comparative Political Institutions, and Public Policy with a focus on interactions between politics, law, and society in a cross-European comparison. My work is, among other outlets, published in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Law and Courts, and the Journal of Legal Studies. I am a principal investigator for The Constitutional Court Database and the German section of the Comparative Agendas Project. Moreover, I currently serve as Chair on the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Law & Courts.
I hold a PhD from the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Mannheim. My dissertation on the political power of highest courts, published by Palgrave, earned several awards including the Dissertation Award of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). While being a PhD candidate I have been a guest scholar at Emory University.
My postdoctoral research experience includes positions at the Research Group on Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz (2021-2024) and the Collaborative Research Center on the „Political Economy of Reform“ at the University of Mannheim (2018-2021). Prior to this, I was a research associate at the Chairs for Comparative Politics at Leibniz University Hannover (2015-2018) and Georg-August-University of Göttingen (2011-2014). I hold a BA in Political Science and Public Law and an MA in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. Additionally, I spent my first year of graduate studies at The Johns Hopkins University and served as a student assistant at the Chair for Political Science and International Comparative Social Research in Mannheim.