I am a Postdoctoral Researcher within the AI & Politics Research Priority Area at the University of Amsterdam. My research sits at the intersection of collective political behavior and EU politics. Specifically, I work on protest and mobilization around the political implications of Artificial Intelligence, the impact of collective action on EU policy-making, as well as Euroscepticism across movements, parties and citizens.

In 2024, I obtained my PhD at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. My dissertation investigates the mechanisms of protest impact in the EU with a focus on policy-makers’ responsiveness to protest, interactions between policy-makers and movements, as well as the differentiated impact of protest across different EU member states. The research for this project has resulted in a book titled The Mechanisms of Protest Impact in the EU, which is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2026.

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.