Bio

I’m a political scientist working on crisis politics and institutional trust. I am currently a Ramon y Cajal Fellow (tenure-track) at the Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP) at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid.

Previously, I was a Research Fellow at the European University Institute, working in the SOLID Project. I was also a Max Weber Fellow and part-time Assistant Professor at the European University Institute, teaching quantitative methods. I received my PhD from Central European University in 2019.

My research received the 2024 Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize in West European Politics. In addition, my research can be found in the Journal of Political Behavior, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of European Public Policy, and Oxford and Cambridge University Press, among others.

See my list of publications. Download my CV.

Interests

  • Political Trust
  • Political Institutions
  • European Politics
  • Populism & Clientelism
  • Health Policy and Inequalities

Education

  • PhD in Political Economy, 2019

    Central European University

  • MA in Political Science, 2014

    Central European University

  • BA in Political Science, 2012

    University of Bucharest

Research

 
 
 
 
 

Ramon y Cajal Fellow (tenure-track)

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

Jan 2026 – Present Madrid
Institute for Public Goods and Policies (IPP)
 
 
 
 
 

Co-PI Health Reform Discourse and Ideology in Crisis

European University Institute

Jan 2024 – Dec 2025 British Academy/Leverhulme Grant
Co-PI: Tamara Popic, Queen Mary University
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow - SOLID ERC

European University Institute

Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 Florence
Principal Investigators: Hanspeter Kriesi, Waltraud Schelkle, Maurizio Ferrera
 
 
 
 
 

CIVICA Project Partnet: WELDECO - Welfare, Democracy, and Populism under the COVID-19 Crisis

European University Institute

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Florence
Partner Universities: Central European University, Bocconi University, London School of Economics. Principal Investigator, Dorottya Szikra.
 
 
 
 
 

Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow

European University Institute

Sep 2020 – Aug 2022 Florence
Mentor: Ellen M. Immergut
 
 
 
 
 

International Research Fellow

Caucasus Research Resource Center

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 Tbilisi
Survey Research

Teaching

 
 
 
 
 

Part-time Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods

European University Institute

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022 Florence

Course

  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods
 
 
 
 
 

Adjunct Professor

Johns Hopkins University, SAIS

Sep 2021 – Dec 2022 Bologna

Course

  • Quantitative Methods for Risk Analysis
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Professor

Ilia State University

Oct 2019 – Aug 2020 Tbilisi

Courses

  • Research Design
  • Global Political Economy
  • Public Policy and Party Politics
  • 21st Century Challenges in Global Politics
 
 
 
 
 

Instructor for Summer/Winter Schools

European Consortium for Political Research

Aug 2019 – Aug 2025 Budapest/Leuven/Online

Courses

  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Introduction to R
  • Applied Regression Analysis
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

Central European University

Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 Budapest
Teaching assistant for several courses in Statistics and Political Economy.

Contact

  • Calle Albasanz 26, Madrid,