Welcome!

I am a research associate and PhD candidate in Economics at DIW Berlin and Free University Berlin. My research centers on political economy, with a particular focus on populism, inequality, and social mobility.


I was on the 2025/2026 job market.


During my PhD, I have been a Visiting Fellow at the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics (2025), Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab (2024), and the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London (2023). I have also contributed to policy work at DIW, the OECD, and the United Nations.

If you are interested in exchanging ideas, or in working with SOEP data, feel free to get in touch


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