CV

Researcher, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut and Research Institute Social Cohesion
Hamburg, Germany | since August 2020
– Building the (Social) Media Observatory
– Researching the far-right and disinformation online
– Advising on digital policy in Germany and the EU

Graduate research fellow, New York University and Network in Contexts Lab
New York City, USA | since September 2025
– Researching agenda-setting and digital information flows 

Guest researcher, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands | March 2024 – April 2024
– Researching digital information flows

Researcher, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Cologne, Germany | November 2018 – March 2019
– Research into echo chambers on social media

Research Associate, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Princeton, USA | September 2018 – December 2018
– Research into political news consumption and information diets in the US and Germany 

Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute – University of Oxford
Oxford, UK | November 2017 – July 2018
– Computational Propaganda Research Project: Research into public opinion manipulation online in Germany, Austria and the US 

Civic Education Lecturer and Seminar Leader
Germany and UK | Since 2012
– Conducted talks and seminars about how the Internet is shaping democracy e.g. for the University of Cologne and the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation  

Conference Manager, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
Düsseldorf, Germany | September 2012 – September 2017
– Trainee and conference manager

Education

University of Bremen, PhD Student at ZeMKI
Hamburg, Germany | since August 2020
Thesis: “Radical Discourse: The internet as a communicative opportunity space for the far-right”

University of Oxford, MSc Social Science of the Internet
Oxford, UK | October 2017 – September 2018
Thesis: “Digital media as a counterpublic: The rise of the AfD in Germany”

University of Cologne, BSc Social Science (Distinction)
Cologne, Germany | September 2013 – October 2017
Thesis: “Echo chambers in social media – an empirical assessment of the Munich shooting”

Scholarships

Scholarship Recipient – German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Berlin, Germany | April 2018 – September 2018

Scholarship Recipient – Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
Berlin, Germany | April 2014 – March 2018

Skills and Knowledge

Domain knowledge and experience: Political Communication Science, Internet Studies, Computational Social Science, Digital Policy, Political Education

Research Skills: Quantitative Content Analysis (automated & human coding), Social Network Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Multivariate Statistics, Visualisation

Languages: German: native speaker; English: fluent