I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. My research seeks to understand what it means to be part of a national, political community. 

I am particularly interested in the political and cultural forces that define who ‘we’ are and create boundaries of belonging. To capture this, I study political discourse, formal and informal institutions, societal norms and popular conceptions of membership and their consequences for different types of individuals. Much of my prior work has tackled these questions through the lens of immigration and national belonging. I use a variety of methods crossing the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, such as computational and in-depth qualitative text analysis, survey experiments, and qualitative interviews. Read more about my research here.

Expanding my research agenda, I recently received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council to study how societal norms take root already early in life and give rise to biased beliefs about who is fit for power. Over the coming time, I will be advertising calls for postdocs to work with me on this project. Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in hearing more.

I cherish and grow from interdisciplinary exchanges and am a member of the Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. From 2025-2026, I am also part of the Young Academy’s Council as the speaker on research politics.

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