I am a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Previously, I was in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna, where I was a post-doctoral researcher at the PARTISAN Project (ERC – PI: Markus Wagner). I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at Université de Montréal under the supervision of Ruth Dassonneville and Zeynep Somer-Topcu. My work sits at the intersection of party politics, public opinion, and political participation.  My Ph.D. dissertation focused on party polarization in Western Europe and how masses react to elite polarization.

My research has three axes. First, I focus on (1) elite and mass polarization (ideological and affective) and who drives it (parties or citizens), (2) their societal and political implications, (3) how partisan stereotypes (both ideological and social) form and shape attitudes and behavior, and (4) the prevalence of experiences of discrimination based on political views.

Second, I work on methodological innovations to refine measures of affective polarization and counter the self-fulfilling prophecies that can arise from its overestimation.

Third, I research the drivers and implications of political participation, focusing on understudied factors such as party ambivalence, expat status, sexual identity, and experiences of discrimination, and assessing whether declining turnout threatens representative democracy.

So far, my research is either published or accepted in Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Party Politics, Political Behavior, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Politics, Research & Politics, and Turkish Studies. I currently have one R&R in the Journal of Politics and Political Behavior. 

You can find my CV here.