Currently, I am a PostDoc funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lucerne (Prof. Dr. Lüchinger). 

My research is at the intersection of political economy, migration and development economics. I explore the influence of the Internet on poor rural communities and the political response to migration, political narratives and unions. My projects introduce several new datasets and rely on large data as well as the application of state-of-the-art tools like LLMs, webscraping, geospatial and text analysis. 

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University. I hold a PhD from the University of Göttingen, supervised by Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher.  During my PhD I was funded by the German Science Foundation as a member of the Research Training Group Globalization and Development and the project 'Coming to America: Immigration, Political Campaigning, and Polarization'. I was also a Research Associate at the University of Heidelberg.  In 2023, I visited Georgetown University and UC Davis for a research stay.

You find my CV here.