I am a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social and Political Science in Göttingen, where I direct the research area “Social and Political Conflicts”. With Lena Röllicke and Anna Berg I also head the DFG Research Network “Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion: Understanding the Crises of Democratic Politics“.

Until 2025, I worked as a postdoc at Humboldt University Berlin‘s Department of Social Science. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich and a visiting researcher at the International Inequalities Institute at London School of Economics (LSE).

I received my PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence in 2022. For my BA and MA, I studied Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, King’s College London, and the École Normale Supérieure in Cachan.

In 2024, the Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel selected me for their list of the Year’s Top 100 Scientists. My co-authored book “Triggerpunkte” received Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s award for the best political book of 2024. In 2022, my dissertation was shortlisted for the Deutscher Studienpreis awarded by Koerber Foundation. In 2021, I was granted a Swiss Government Excellence Fellowship. During my undergraduate studies, I received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.