I am a political scientist currently working as an Assistant Professor at the European University Institute (EUI) within the framework of the SOLID project led by Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi. My research agenda focuses on European solidarity and risk-sharing, political behavior and public opinion formation, and social movements and protest. My work concentrates on the political dynamics spurred by the Covid crisis, the refugee crisis, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and their implications on EU polity development and integration more broadly. My recent and ongoing publications explore how the interactions between the supply and demand side of politics are shaping solidarity, risk-sharing, and welfare outcomes within the EU and its Member States.

Beyond my substantive interests, I also focus on research methodology and R software development with a pluralist outlook. I work with text-as-data solutions for semi-automated protest event analysis, surveys and survey experiments, and I develop analytic protocols and software for qualitative comparative analysis.

I have completed my PhD in Comparative Politics at Central European University (CEU) on policy responsiveness to collective mobilization. I am the main developer of the R package SetMethods (~60,000 CRAN downloads) and have extensive experience in teaching research design, R, and QCA at various international methods schools and universities (IQMR, IPSA, ECPR Methods Schools, Lund University, University of Helsinki, EUI, etc.). My book, co-authored with Carsten Q. Schneider and Eva Thomann, ‘Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) using R: A Gentle Introduction’ has just been published with Cambridge University Press.

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