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 Conflict“. I am also a guest researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center‘s Center of Civil Society Research. I coordinate the DFG Research Network “Qualitative Studies of Public Opinion“, as well as the Research Stream “New Class Politics on the Left” at the Progressive Politics Research Network.

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 de 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 German Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

FULL CV (last updated: June 2026)