About

I am an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research. My research interests lie in political communication in the context of European integration, with a special interest in crisis communication and legitimation processes. I obtained my PhD from the University of Vienna in 2017 with a thesis on "The Legitimation of the European Parliament – A Comparative Assessment of Newspaper Contents and Their Effects in Three European Union Member States". The thesis was part of the FWF-funded research project PACE – Parliamentary Communication of Europe at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna where I was a pre-doc researcher from October 2012-August 2016. From June 2017-September 2018, I was affiliated with the University of Siegen (Coordinator) as a post-doctoral research fellow in the H2020 project TransSOL. From October 2018-September 2022, I was Principal Investigator of the project "Tango on a Tightrope – An Investigation of Media-Politics Dynamics in EU Crisis Management", funded under the Hertha-Firnberg Programme of the Austrian Science Fund, affiliated with the Computational Communication Science Lab at the University of Vienna. The project investigated the mutual influence of politics and the media during ten years of EU crises in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Research Interests

Democracy, European Politics, European Union, Executives, Government, Media, Political Methodology, Methods, Quantitative, Social Media, Communication, Big Data, European Parliament

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Communication
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Political Representation
• Political Methodology
• European Union
• Internet and Politics
• Parliaments
• Political Networks
• Differentiated Integration in the EU
• Gender and Politics
• Elites and Political Leadership
• Central and East European Politics
• Migration and Ethnicity