About

I am a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim and a teaching and research associate at the Chair of Political Science/European Politics. I am also involved in a project on the evolution of party competition in the European Union at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) (together with Thomas König and David Hilpert).

In my research, I use computational social science methods, in particular natural language processing, machine learning and network analysis, to study the behaviour and interaction of legislators in the European Parliament. In my dissertation, I use voting records and debate contributions to analyze how Members of the European Parliament adapt their behaviour in response to changes in institutional constraints over the course of the electoral cycle.