I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, where I am working in the Research Priority Area AI & Politics. My research investigates the role of non-state actors in influencing the governance of artificial intelligence, digital regulation, copyright, and trade in the EU. In my current primary research project, I explore how Civil Society Organisations are involved in shaping the policy-making processes for AI regulation in the EU. The project specifically examines how CSOs contribute to advancing democratic accountability, promoting transparency in decision-making, and ensuring that regulatory frameworks uphold principles of non-discrimination and social justice.

In 2024, I obtained my PhD at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. My dissertation, The Impact of Protest on Policy-Making in the European Union, investigates the mechanisms of protest impact in the EU with a focus on the European Parliament. During my PhD, I was a Kurt Hahn Scholar at the University of Cambridge, an Honorary Benefactors’ Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and I held the YouGov Studentship at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge (2020 - 2023). Previously, I held a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, 2015-2020).

I have a track record of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate seminars, supervisions and lectures at the University of Amsterdam and for numerous colleges at the University of Cambridge on a range of topics including Comparative Politics, party systems, the history of European Integration, European Union politics, the politics of protest and social movements, and political polarisation.