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Academic Positions
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2023 - today Professor (W3) in Comparative Politics
Institute for Political Science, University of Münster -
2021 - today Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Political Science, Aarhus University -
2019 – 2023 SNF Ambizione Grant Holder
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich -
2015 – 2019 Senior Researcher (Oberassistent)
Department of Political Science, University of Zurich
Education
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2016 PhD
University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom -
2013 Diplom (MA) in Political Science
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
Projects
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2021-now DEMNORM (approx. 1 Million Euro funded by Carlsberg Foundation & AUFF)
- My team and I seek to understand the role of social norms for democracy.
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2019-2023 Extreme Entrance (approx. 700,000 Euros funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
- In my SNSF Ambizione project, my research team and I tried to understand the causes and consequences of radical party emergence.
Research Interests
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Comparative Politics & Political Behavior
- Public Opinion.
- Social Norms.
- Rise of Extremism.
- Remedies against Extremism.
- Democratic Attitudes.
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Causal Inference
- Survey experiments.
- Quasi-experiments.
- Field experiments.