Positions

University of Málaga (UMA), Spain                                                                        

  • Distinguished Researcher (Programa EMERGIA)                    Since 2/2023
  • Department of Economics
  • Postdoctoral Researcher                                                       10/2021–1/2023
  • Department of Economics

 

Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Spain                                         10/2019-9/2021

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Institutions and Political Economy Research Group, School of Economics

 

University of Munich (LMU), Germany                                        10/2016-9/2019

  • Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer)
  • Department of Political Science

 

Harvard University, US                                                                               1-4/2019

  • Visiting Researcher
  • Department of Government

 

University of Innsbruck, Austria                                                   10/2017–3/2018

  • Lecturer
  • Department of Political Science

 

University of Nottingham, UK                                                                9-10/2017

  • Visiting Researcher
  • School of Politics and International Relations

 

University of Málaga (UMA), Spain                                                          3-4/2016

  • Visiting Researcher and Lecturer
  • Department of Economics

 

University of Munich (LMU), Germany                                                                                

  • Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer                                        10/2011-9/2016
    (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
  • Department of Political Science
  • Student Research Assistant                                                       1/2010-9/2011
  • Department of Political Science
  • Student Assistant                                                                       7/2007-12/2009
  • Student Record Office

Education

University of Munich (LMU), Germany                                              10/2012-7/2016

  • PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in Political Science and Statistics (summa cum laude)
  • Title: A Party-Varying Model of Issue Voting: A Cross-National Study
  • Advisors: Paul W. Thurner (Political Science), Gerhard Tutz (Statistics)
  • PhD Program: Statistics: Theory & Methods of Empirical Modelling
  • PhD Study Grant: German National Academic Foundation
  • Nominated for the ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize

 

University of Málaga (UMA), Spain                                                        8/2008-7/2009

  • Visiting Student

 

University of Munich (LMU), Germany                                                10/2006-7/2011

  • M.A. in Political Science, Sociology and Statistics
  • Examiner: Paul W. Thurner (Political Science), Norman Braun (Sociology),
    Carolin Strobl (Statistics)

Gymnasium der Ursulinen-Schulstiftung, Straubing, Germany            1997-2006

  • German Abitur 

Funding

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 and Grants

  • LMU Mentoring Program Research Grant, 2018–2019
  • 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

Award Nominations

  • 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

Talks & Conferences

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

  • ECPR Virtual General Conference, 8/2020
  • German Stata Conference, Munich, Germany, 5/2019
  • ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 8/2018
  • Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria, 6/2018
  • Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK, 9/2017
  • Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, US, 4/2017
  • Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, Austria, 6/2015
  • Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, US, 4/2015
  • Annual Conference of the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, 7/2014
  • Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, UK, 6/2014
  • Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, US, 4/2014
  • Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, Spain, 6/2013
  • Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 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

  • “Spatial Models of Party Competition and Recent Trends in European Policy Spaces”
    (with Anna-Sophie Kurella), ECPR Virtual General Conference, 8/2020

Professional Service

Referee:

Electoral Studies (1), European Journal of Political Research (1),

European Political Science Review (4), German Political Science Quarterly PVS (2),

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)