I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). I am also an Affiliate Fellow at the Stigler Center, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. 

I study political economy with a focus on money in politics and corporate political activity. I am especially interested in how corporations strategically combine different non-market strategies, such as lobbying, campaign donations or political connections to influence politics. I also research how politics at the workplace affect employees’ economic and political behavior.

I specialize in quantitative analyses of big datasets. I use computational social science methods, causal inference for observational and experimental data, machine learning, and natural language processing tools.

I am also the Co-Principal Investigator of the historical political economy project "Who became a Nazi?" (DeNazDB). We digitize and code denazification questionnaires (Fragebogen) that were distributed in Germany from 1945 to 1949, to learn about (1) individual motivations for joining Nazi organizations, and (2) to what extent individuals benefited from memberships.

Before joining CBS, I held postdoctoral positions at Humboldt University Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST). I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2019. I have been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and a visiting fellow at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).