Hello! I am a research associate and PhD candidate in economics at DIW Berlin and Free University Berlin. My main research fields are political economy and public economics, with a focus on threats to democracy.

At DIW Berlin, I Iead a project on populism and social mobility. As part of this work, I was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights Lab in 2024, invited by Raj Chetty. In 2025, I will be a visiting researcher at the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics, invited by Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty.

I contributed to policy work at DIW Berlin, the OECD, and the United Nations Secretariat. Feel free to reach out and discuss research or policy questions!

You can download my CV here.