I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). I am also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and 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 and campaign donations, to influence politics, and the importance of the workplace for employees’ political activities.

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 and visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 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.

From October 2024 until April 2025, I will be a visiting fellow at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics.