Welcome! I am an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany. My research centers around comparative political institutions, elite political behavior, and party politics. I study how incumbents concentrate executive power and manage political opposition through coalition-building, institutional change, and electoral competition, and how their strategic choices affect democratic representation, governance, and regime stability.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Gothenburg, where I co-led the creation of the Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) dataset. My research on political parties, opposition co-optation, and regime outcomes have been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Party Politics, and Electoral Studies.