I greatly enjoy teaching and mentoring students and see the classroom as an important source of intellectual exchange, inspiration, and growth. In my teaching, I place particular emphasis on connecting theoretical debates with empirical analysis and on actively engaging students in the research process.
My teaching spans substantive and methods-oriented courses in political science at the undergraduate and graduate levels. It covers European politics, political behavior, and political communication, as well as survey and experimental methods, and text-as-data and AI-assisted approaches.
In recognition of my teaching, I was awarded the Faculty’s Junior Teaching Prize in 2026 for my seminar European Politics in Times of Crisis.
How is artificial intelligence transforming European politics – and how can we study these changes critically and analytically? This seminar explores the role of digitalization and …
This MA seminar combines survey research methods with the study of current political phenomena and pressing issues of democracy. We will cover general aspects of survey research …
For decades, Europe has been plagued by multiple crises. For example, the financial crisis of 2008, the so-called refugee crisis of 2015, the coronavirus pandemic since 2021, and …