I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. As part of the IUROPA project, I am currently conducting research on European judicial politics. Previously, I was a political advisor in the European Parliament and a research fellow at KU Leuven.
Most of my research addresses different aspects of the interplay between law and politics, frequently in the context of the European Union. I maintain the eurlex R package for accessing data on European Union law.
PhD European Law and Politics, 2020
KU Leuven
MA EU International Relations, 2016
College of Europe
BA International Relations, 2015
University of Groningen
LLB International and European Law, 2015
University of Groningen
November: Presented research on the EU law and politics of protecting national judicial independence at IUROPA workshop, Gothenburg
November: Presentation on rule of law backsliding in Poland and Hungary to Swedish Liberals
Fall: Teaching classes on EU institutions, Europeanization of foreign policy and European climate and energy policy at University of Gothenburg
Fall: Teaching quantitative text analysis and methods at a PhD academy at Venice International University
Spring: Co-teaching an interdisciplinary course on the European Court of Justice at KU Leuven
January: Invited speaker at a webinar with the Institute for European Law at KU Leuven to discuss developments in EU rule of law policy
November: Spoke about a “New Generation of International Law Databases” as part of the Computational and Empirical International Law Speaker Series
November: Taught a guest lecture about rule of law backsliding in the European Union for students of the Master of European Studies at KU Leuven
September: Defended my PhD thesis on competence contestation in the European Union at KU Leuven
August: With co-authors presented our research on drivers of state interventions before EU courts as part of the ECPR Law & Courts webinar series
July: Presented my research on estimating the preferences of the European Court of Justice as part of the ECPR Law & Courts webinar series
Fall: Taught data science tutorials as part of “Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe and the World” (Master of European Studies)
October: Introduction to EU Institutions and Law (Master of European Studies)
July: Presented my experimental paper “Apolitical Lawyer” at IVR Congress in Luzern
July: Introduction to EU Institutions and the Rule of Law Crisis (Global Governance and International Law Summer School, Leuven)
June: Presented my paper on EUSSUE Attention at Quantitative Text Analysis Workshop in Dublin and EPSA Annual Conference in Belfast
February: From Law to Data. A short course introducing data manipulation and analysis in Excel and R intended to popularize data science at Belgian law faculties.
Fall: Teaching assistant on the course ‘Fondements de droit’ at KU Leuven
November: EU law tutorial on the concept of legal basis
October: Introduction to EU Institutions and Law (Master of European Studies)
November: EU law tutorial on the relationship between the EU Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights at KU Leuven
October: Tutorial simulating Brexit negotiations with a design combining elements of two-level game theory and mixed-motive bargaining. Each student played an individual actor with unique preferences (altogether 22 inividual dossiers were drafted).