About Me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Survey Data Curation Department at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. I received my PhD in political science from the University of Mannheim in 2025.

My research sits at the intersection of political geography and electoral behavior. I study how spatial disparities shape political attitudes and party preferences, how people perceive their living conditions relative to others, and what drives place-based resentments. Alongside these substantive questions, I am interested in the methodological challenges that arise when linking survey data with spatial and regional data sources.

Before joining GESIS’s Competence Center for Data Quality in the Social Sciences (KODAQS) in 2023, I worked as a data curator for the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). At KODAQS, I contribute to the KODAQS Academy, where I develop learning content on data quality indicators and metrics, and to the KODAQS Toolbox, an open-source platform for assessing errors in linked survey data.