About
Welcome to my website. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and faculty affiliate at the Data Science Research Institute at Colorado State University. I am also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. I received my Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna between 2020-22.
I use text as data and machine learning to study democracy, democratic backsliding, negative campaigning, and the strategic behavior of political actors in elections, particularly the interaction between political parties and voters in democracies. I am also interested in estimating the prevalence and consequences of variation of political knowledge and information in the mass public and media.
Interests
- Democratization and Backsliding
- Elections and Voting Behavior
- Political Parties
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Survey Design and Methodology
Education
Ph.D. Government, 2020
University of Texas
M.Sc. Statistics, 2019
University of Texas
M.Sc. Political Behaviour, 2014
University of Essex
M.A. Political Science, 2013
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
B.A. Political Science and Sociology, 2011
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
