I am a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project “DEMOLAW” (PI: Prof. Dr. Steffen Hurka) at Zeppelin University since April 2025, exploring how democratic legislation is designed, created, and maintained—and how it shapes and intersects with administrative guidelines and real-world outcomes.

In June 2025, I defended my dissertation "Biased by the Media? The Occurrence and Mitigation of Discrimination in German Welfare Offices" at the University of Konstanz, where I examined how immigration-related news coverage influences caseworkers’ decisions in welfare offices. 

My broader research interests lie at the intersection of welfare state policies, bureaucratic discrimination, and media framing. I use survey experiments with public officials and text-as-data methods to investigate how institutions respond to public narratives and structural biases. In my current role, I apply natural language processing techniques to study how laws and administrative guidance documents are written—and how their design affects implementation and frontline bureaucratic behavior.

Before joining Zeppelin University, I worked as a research associate in two projects at the University of Konstanz: "Prejudices and Stereotyping in Job Centers? Benefits of the Basic Security for Job Seekers according to SGB II" and “Administrative Inequality: The Case of Foreign Nationals in Germany”, both led by Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider at the University of Konstanz. I received my M.A./M.Sc. in Political Science from Stockholm University and LMU Munich, and my B.A. in Political Science and Public Administration from University of Konstanz.