Welcome to my website. I am an assistant professor of political methodology in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. I received my Ph.D. in Government from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna between 2020-22.
My research interests focus on computational social science and the strategic behavior of political actors in elections. I use text as data and machine learning to study the interaction of political parties and voters in democracies. In my dissertation I examine the determinants and consequences of negative campaigning in electoral competition. I am also interested in estimating the prevalence and consequences of variation of political knowledge and information in the mass public and media.
I have received an M.Sc. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to UT Austin I received an M.Sc. in Political Behaviour from the Department of Government of the University of Essex/England and a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the Institute of Political Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg/Germany.
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
“Not News: Provision of Apolitical News in the U.S. News Media” (with Suriyan Laohaprapanon and Gaurav Sood). Working paper is available here, preliminary analysis based on over 5k cable news broadcasts can be found on Github.)
“Hidden Knowledge, Veiled Ignorance: Do People Know More – or Even Less – about Politics than Commonly Thought?” (with Robert C. Luskin, and Gaurav Sood)
“Misinformation about Misinformation? Of Headlines and Survey Design” (with Robert C. Luskin, Gaurav Sood, and Yul Min Park, early working paper)
Research Methods for Political Science (Colorado State, Graduate)
Research Methods for Political Science (University of Vienna, graduate) Evaluations: (Spring 2022)
Quantitative Methods for Empirical Social Sciences (University of Vienna, undergraduate) Evaluations: (Fall 2020evaluations, Fall 2021 Class A, Class B)
Statistical Analysis in Political Science II (UT Austin, TA, graduate) Spring 2016, Spring 2019 (evaluations)
Statistical Analysis in Political Science I (UT Austin, TA, graduate) Fall 2018 (evaluations, Teaching Assistant of the Year Award)
Political Psychology (Colorado State, Undergraduate)
Negative Campaigning in Electoral Politics (University of Vienna, graduate) Fall 2022 (evaluations)
Public Opinion and Voting (University of Vienna, undergraduate) Spring 2021 (evaluations)
Government and Politics of Western Europe (UT Austin, TA, undergraduate) Fall 2016 - Fall 2017
Bachelor seminar, 23 students (University of Vienna, undergraduate) Spring 2021 (evaluations)
American Government (UT Austin, TA, undergraduate) Fall 2015, Spring 2018