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 and EU policy making. Specifically, I focus on EU AI regulation, the role of civil society, think tanks, and protest movements in shaping EU policies, and on the politicisation of digital and trade policies in the EU. 

My research has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of European Integration, and at the Center for the Future of Democracy. 

My first book, The Mechanisms of Protest Impact in the EU, was published in 2026 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Previously, 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). Between 2015 and 2020, I held a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). 

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.