about me.

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I am Associate Professor for Political Science, within Public Policy and Administration, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Mannheim and studied or worked at the Universities of Mannheim, Göttingen, Hannover, and Konstanz, as well as Johns Hopkins University and Emory University before joining NTNU.

My research interests include Comparative Political Behavior, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Policy, and Administration, with a focus on interactions between politics, law, and society in a cross-European comparison. Methodologically, I combine quantitative methods, computational text analysis, survey experiments, and game theory.

Among other outlets, my work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Law and Courts. The Two Faces of Judicial Power (Palgrave Macmillan), my dissertation on the political power of highest courts, received several awards, including the Dissertation Award of the German Political Science Association. I am a principal investigator for The Constitutional Court Database and the German section of the Comparative Agendas Project and currently serve as Chair of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Law & Courts.