I am an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics at Sciences Po Paris. In my work, I seek to answer the question of why citizens support authoritarian actors. Using various research designs and causal inference methods, I focus on former communist Europe and study how authoritarian actors shape attitudes towards autocracy and democracy, political conflicts, and identities. I graduated with a PhD from the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in 2026.

Working Papers

1. Political Economy of Military Presence in Autocracies: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic

2. On Solid Footing: How Authoritarian Legacies Facilitate the Rise of Illiberalism

3. Land and Loyalty: The Political Consequences of Land Reform in East Germany

4. From Peasants to Communists: How Ordinary Citizens Invest in Authoritarian Parties

5. Beyond the Losers: How Transformation Gains Don’t Boost Democratic Support (with Hans Lueders and Eda Keremoglu)

6. The Price of Incompetence: How Policy Mismanagement Fuels Climate Backlash (with Martín Alberdi)

7. Committed to Memory: How History Shapes Political Attitudes and Remembrance Norms in Germany (with Anna Clemente and Joe Kendall)

8. Gender Inequalities: Experimental Evidence from Germany (with Hans Lueders and Eda Keremoğlu)

Work in Progress

1. Memory Regimes and Attitudes toward Foreign Conflict (with Anna Clemente and Joe Kendall)

2. Who Remembers What? Scrutinizing Vertical Memory Transmission (with Anna Clemente and Joe Kendall)