I am a Postdoctoral Researcher within the AI & Politics Research Priority Area at the University of Amsterdam. My research sits at the intersection of AI and digital governance, EU policy making, and bottom-up politicisation of the EU. Specifically, I focus on EU AI regulation, the role of civil society, think tanks and protest movements in shaping EU policies, and on Eurosceptic contestations across radical left and right parties and movements.

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 May 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 European Union politics, the politics of protest and social movements, the history of European integration, digital governance and regulation in the EU, and case study research design.