Welcome! I’m the Professor of Social Data Science at the Hertie School in Berlin, where I’m affiliated with the Data Science Lab and also teach in the Master of Public Policy.

My research sits at the intersection of federalism and democratic representation. It explores the strategic interactions between national, state, and local governments and their respective constituencies as they engage in the policy process. A common theme across the numerous venues that I study — including city councils, school boards, county sheriffs, and state legislatures — is that subnational governments are emerging as a site of contestation for major national political battles. Therefore, I am particularly interested in how local elections aggregate voters’ preferences and represent disadvantaged groups.

My other work combines formal theory and causal inference methodologies to advance the study of polarization, immigration, race and policing, and the measurement of political preferences.

I was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2020 and hold an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago Harris School.