I am a Senior Lecturer at the Tel Aviv University's School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs, where I study elite political behaviour.

My research focuses on executive decision making - I look at whether and how people who run for office differ from non-politicians when they solve problems and reason about the policy choices they have to make, and how this affects the quality of representation in democracies. I do this using large-scale studies with politicians as participants, across different contexts and countries. 

My broader substantive interests include elections and campaign effects, and emotions in politics. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, and Political Behavior.

I am currently a principal investigator in two multi-country comparative studies of elites: POLPOP, and the European Local Politics Observatory (EPLO). I am also a co-investigator in the Israeli National Election Study (INES).