Welcome! I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Politics at the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University. I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Consortium on Electoral Democracy (C-Dem) in Canada. I obtained my PhD in Political Science at LMU Munich in June 2022. During my graduate study, I was a visiting researcher at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). 

I study public opinion and political behavior. My substantive research interest lies in the intersection of autocratization, radical politics, and information updating during elections. In terms of methodology, I am interested in surveys and causal inference. 

My dissertation studies the impacts of radical right party's electoral results in a multi-level system. Specifically, I analyze how electoral results, as a source of information, shape voters' ideological identities, their affinity with different parties, and their democratic attitudes. Building upon my previous works, I am working on a project called “Spillover Effects in an Autocratization Age (SpAA)”. It studies how citizens in multi-level systems update various autocratization events (e.g. electoral victories of authoritarians; US Capitol insurrection; military coups). As these events took place in an international system, I analyze whether and how these autocratization events change citizens’ political attitudes and behaviour across borders.

My research has been funded by various institutions, including DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), European Survey Research Association, the German Federal Foreign Office, and Heinz und Sybille Laufer Foundation.