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

Invited Talks and Workshops

• Economics Department, Universidad de Málaga, 4/2020 (postponed)
• Workshop “Recent Developments of Spatial Models of Party Competition”, Mannheim, 7/2019
• Workshop “Bringing Politics into the Study of the European Union”, LMU Munich, 11/2018
• Colloquium Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), 9/2018
• Workshop “New Developments in Spatial Models of Party Competition”, Konstanz, 7/2017
• Economics Department, Universidad de Málaga, 4/2016

Conferences

• PolMeth Europe 2020, Hamburg, 9/2020 (postponed)
• ECPR Virtual General Conference, 8/2020
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, 6/2020 (accepted)
• 2019 German Stata Users Group Meeting, Munich, 5/2019
• ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 8/2018
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, 6/2018
• Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, specialist group, Nottingham, 9/2017
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 4/2017
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, 6/2015
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 4/2015
• Annual Conference of the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, 7/2014
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, 6/2014
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 4/2014
• Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, 6/2013
• Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 4/2013
• ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz, 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, Innsbruck, 8/2020

Referee:

European Political Science Review (3),

European Journal of Political Research (1),

Electoral Studies (1),

Government and Opposition (1),

Journal of Global Security Studies (1),

Politics and Governance (1),

Political Science Research and Methods (1) ,

Statistical Modelling (1),

Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft [Journal of Political Science (1)

[Publons]

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)

Methods Training

• A Primer to Web Scraping and Text Mining with R (Simon Munzert),
  LMU Munich, Department of Political Science, 2018
• Interdisciplinary Seminar on Voting Behavior (Helmut Küchenhoff, Paul W. Thurner),
  LMU Munich, Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics, 2012–2014
• Introduction to Bayesian Analysis (Susumu Shikano), Content Analysis (Aude Bicquelet),
  ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Ljubljana, 2012
• Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (Ben Jann),
  GESIS Spring Seminar: Causality, Structural Equation Modeling with AMOS and Mplus, Cologne, 2012
• Mathematics for the Social Sciences (Jeff Gill),
  ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Vienna, 2012
• Program PROFiL (Professional in Teaching),
  Training Center LMU Munich, 2012
• Structural Equation and Multilevel Modeling Using Mplus (Jens Vogelgesang, Michael Scharkow),
  LMU Munich, Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, 2011

Teaching Training and other Workshops

• Seminars of the LMU Center of Leadership and People Management, 2016–2019
• Workshops of the Graduate Center^LMU for postdocs and doctoral students, 2012–2019
• Workshops of the German National Academic Foundation, 2013–2015
• Program PROFiL (Professional in Teaching), Training Center LMU Munich, 2012

American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association,

European Political Science Association, European Consortium for Political Research,

The Society for Political Methodology, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung,

Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft

Software: R, STATA, LIMDEP/NLOGIT, WinBUGS, Mplus, Visual Basic, LATEX;

                  XHTML, JavaScript, CSS
Languages: German (native), English/Spanish (fluent), Portuguese/Italian (beginner)