My substantial interest lies in European legislative politics and my dissertation builds up new measurement strategy for the ideology of political actors. Using these new measures, I investigate how parliamentary leaders deal with conflict in their own party and how they limit the public costs of free-riders holding extrem views. Beyond ideology, I am generally interested in the role played by parliaments in the policy-making process.
I am a PhD Student in Political Science at the University of Konstanz (Germany). My research lies at the intersection between Political Methodology (with a taste for textual data), Legislative Politics (small number of actors for a lot of texts) and Online Political Behavior (TikTok is purely professional!). In my dissertation, I develop new methodological tools to measure the ideological position of MPs and test spatial models of legislative politics.
Beyond academia, I am a compulsive #rstats programmer and a dedicated fooddy! I also spend part of my life in Canada sharpening my wild lumberjack skills: I can’t get enough of free space, wood chopping and mapple syrup.