My research sits at the intersection of political science, public administration, and cognitive psychology. I examine how informational cues and rules surrounding street-level bureaucrats influence their daily decision-making (such as providing assistance to clients, imposing benefit reductions, or placing clients in active labor market programs) and can contribute to inequality in public service delivery. An important part of my research is also to identify and evaluate innovative ways to promote fair decision-making in public administration. My work has been published in journals including Comparative Political Studies and Policy Studies Journal.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project "DEMOLAW" at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen since April 2025, exploring how democratic legislation is designed, created, and maintained. Before joining Zeppelin University, I completed my PhD in Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz with a dissertation on the occurrence and mitigation of discrimination in German welfare offices. I hold a double-degree M.A./M.Sc. in Political Science from Stockholm University and LMU Munich, and a B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz. 

Methodologically, I combine survey experiments, text-as-data, and qualitative approaches. I use survey experiments with public officials to examine how media narratives affect bureaucratic decision-making; I conduct expert interviews to understand how caseworkers perceive vagueness in legal rules; and I apply natural language processing to study how laws and administrative guidance documents are written and shape bureaucratic discretion.

My research focuses on three interconnected avenues; two examine sources of administrative inequality, focusing on external and regulatory cues, while the third examines potential interventions to promote fairer decision-making:

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