Welcome,

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of International Relations and Political Economy at the University of Zurich (UZH). My research focuses on international organizations—particularly the UN Security Council—diplomatic rhetoric, international negotiation, politics of intervention, international security, and computational text analysis. I am also a member of the ERC Disintegration Project, where we investigate voter-endorsed challenges to international institutions. In my work, I leverage various computational text analysis techniques, from simple dictionary and sentiment analysis to more advanced Topic Classifications, Semantic Scaling, and state-of-the-art Large Language Models. I study the rhetoric of diplomats and political leaders to understand their justifications of actions and its possible influence on decision-making within international organizations and global politics.

Before joing the UZH, I was a doctoral research fellow at the Global Governance Unit of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and obtained a PhD. in poltical science from the Free University of Berlin. During my Master, I was a Fulbright Scholar at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. In 2022, I was awarded the ISA’s Robert W. Cox Award. My work has been published in International Relations and Cooperation and Conflict amongst others.