Research Project Grants

Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Heinz und Sybille Laufer-Stiftung:

Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Project: “The Analysis of Voter Transitions: 

The Application of an Innovative Methodological Approach Exemplified by the 2018 State Elections in Bavaria”; 
with Paul W. Thurner, Helmut Küchenhoff, Thomas Knieper, Melanie Walter-Rogg, Harry Haupt

Scholarships, Grants and Awards

• EMERGIA Scholarship, Excellence Program of the Andalusian Regional Government, 2023–2027
• Editors’ Choice Article Award for an article published in Political Analysis that represents an
  "especially significant contribution to political methodology", 2020
• LMU Mentoring Program Research Grant, 2018–2019
• Short-listed for the ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize, 2017
• Nominated by the Faculty Group (9-15) for the PhD Prize of the Munich University Society, 2017
• LMUexcellent Travel Grants for international conference participations, 2017–2018
• LMU Gender Equality Grant, 3/2017–2/2018
• Mentee in the Program Ment15 of the Faculty of Social Sciences, LMU Munich, 2015–2017
• Erasmus+ Teaching and Staff Mobility Grant, 3–4/2016
• German National Academic Foundation PhD Study Grant, 10/2012–3/2016
• German National Academic Foundation Travel Grants, 2013–2015
• Erasmus Study Grant for the Academic Year at the Universidad de Málaga, 2008–2009

Invited Talks and Workshops

• Workshop "Mechanism Design and Welfare Economics", University of Malaga, 10/2022
• Multidisciplinary Research Workshop "Voters’ Preferences and Parties’ Performance in Politics",
  Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 6/2022
• Speaker Series "Women in Political Methodology", online, 11/2021
• Workshop “Recent Developments of Spatial Models of Party Competition”, Mannheim, Germany, 7/2019
• Workshop “Bringing Politics into the Study of the European Union”, LMU Munich, 11/2018
• Colloquium Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Mannheim, Germany, 9/2018
• Workshop “New Developments in Spatial Models of Party Competition”, Konstanz, Germany, 7/2017
• THE Department Seminar, Faculty of Eonomics, University of Malaga, 4/2016

Conferences

• Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), Napoli, Italy, 9/2025 (accepted)
• International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM), Limerick, Ireland, 7/2025
• 2025 Spanish Stata Conference, Sevilla, Spain, 5/2025
• ECPR Virtual General Conference, 8/2020
• 2019 German Stata Conference, Munich, Germany, 5/2019
• ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 8/2018
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Vienna, Austria, 6/2018
• Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, 9/2017
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, US, 4/2017
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Vienna, Austria, 6/2015
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, US, 4/2015
• Annual Conference of the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, 7/2014
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Edinburgh, UK, 6/2014
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, US, 4/2014
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Barcelona, Spain, 6/2013
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, US, 4/2013
• ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz, Germany, 3/2013
• Annual Conference of the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, 7/2012

Panel Organization

• "Uncertainty in Public Opinion: Conceptual Elaborations and Empirical Modeling",
  Annual Conference of the Italian Political Science Association, Napoli, Italy, 9/2025
• “Spatial Models of Party Competition and Recent Trends in European Policy Spaces”
  (with Anna-Sophie Kurella), ECPR Virtual General Conference, 8/2020

Referee:

• Electoral Studies (4)
• European Journal of Political Research (2)
• European Political Science Review (4)
• German Political Science Quarterly PVS (3)
• Government and Opposition (1) 
• Journal of Global Security Studies (1)
• Journal of Political Science ZPol (1)
• Political Science Research and Methods (1)
• Politics and Governance (1)
• Statistical Modelling (1)

Department and Faculty Service:
Deputy Women's Representative of the Faculty of Social Sciences, LMU Munich, 10/2016–12/2018

• Member of the Departmental Council of the Political Science Department
• Member of an Appointment Committee
• Networking Meetings Organization: Events Series on Gender Equality “BETTER TOGETHER”

Other Service: Member of the Selection Committee of future fellows of the German National
Academic Foundation (since 2015)