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I am a social scientist interested in political behavior, public opinion, and political extremism. My research examines how factors like economic hardship, socialization processes, and identity dynamics influence political attitudes, including support for political violence, populist attitudes, and radicalism. I use survey research, experimental methods, and advanced data analysis to understand the psychological and social foundations of political attitudes, with a particular focus on the effects of material deprivation, polarization, and moralized political discourse.
I am co-principal investigator of the DFG funded project "Political and Religious Extremism. Measuring and Explaining Explicit and Implicit Attitudes" (with Marc Helbling) and co-principal investigator of the DFG funded project "Growing into politics under material hardship: The impact of socio-economic problems on political socialization" (with Paul Marx).
I received my PhD in political science from the University of Bamberg, Germany, in 2019 and I am currently working as a post-doctoral research at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn, Germany. My work has been published, among others, in the European Journal of Political Science, the European Sociological Review, Perspectives on Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and West European Politics.