Curriculum Vitae

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I am an LSE Fellow in the Department of Government, where I teach, organise seminars and workshops, and pursue my research agenda. Trained in both economics and political science, in 2025 I completed my PhD at Bocconi University, Milan, with a dissertation on electoral accountability for illiberal governments, supervised by Catherine De Vries. Research visits took me to Cornell, HU Berlin, and the University of Mannheim along the way. 

I grew up in Moscow and trained as an economist, first there and then in Berlin. Politics was something I followed closely, experienced at the grassroots, and saw from inside the German Bundestag and an international political foundation. The social and institutional transformations I witnessed over those years steered me toward political science, and to my research on illiberalism, authoritarianism and exclusion.