I am a postdoctoral associate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. In September 2025, I will join the Government Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science as an Assistant Professor. I received my PhD from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University, where I was a graduate affiliate with the NYU Public Safety Lab and a fellow with the Urban Initiative at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
My research sits at the intersection of American political institutions, bureaucratic politics, local politics, and political methodology. My current work aims to increase our understanding of incentives and selection in bureaucracies and their implications for public policy and accountability. I approach these issues by examining strategic interactions among politicians, bureaucrats, and voters, and analyzing their impact on public service provision, regulatory policy, and the representativeness of government. My work leverages a range of research designs and data sources, including causal inference methods for observational data, text analysis, administrative records, spatial data, and game theory. My work is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics and Political Analysis.
I also hold an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science and Economics from University of Mannheim. Before graduate school at NYU, I worked as a researcher in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Chair of Econometrics at University of Mannheim and the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.