Welcome! I am a Distinguished Researcher (EMERGIA excellence program of the Andalusian Regional Government) at the Faculty of Economics (THE) at the University of Málaga (UMA). I was recently on a research stay at the Statistics and Mathematical Research Group (LabStat) at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

In the past, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group at the University of Barcelona (UB) and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Munich (LMU). I joined the Government Department at Harvard University and the University of Nottingham as a visiting researcher, and the University of Innsbruck as a lecturer. I received my PhD in Political Science and Statistics and my M.A. (Political Science, Sociology, Statistics) from the LMU Munich.

My research interests lie in the statistical modeling of political behavior and preference formation. I have specialized in categorical data and discrete choice modeling as well as policy-based voting and party competition.

My work is published in European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, European Political Science Review, Journal of Choice Modelling, Political Analysis, Statistical Modelling, Statistical Methods & Applications, Statistics & Probability Letters, Sociological Methods & Research, Survey Research Methods, and West European Politics,  among other venues, and has received the Political Analysis Editors' Choice Article Award.