Welcome!
I'm an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center and the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to that I worked at the Chair for Political Science IV at the University of Mannheim, where I obtained my PhD.
Starting February, I'll be joining the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin as Professor of International and Cyber Security.
My research focuses on political violence, state repression and the measurement of human rights. My book project theoretically and empirically investigates how governments use digital communication technology to inform their strategies of violent repression. The book is based on my dissertation, which was awarded the 2014-2016 Walter Isard Dissertation Award (given every two years by the Peace Science Society International), and the Deutscher Studienpreis 2015 (German Dissertation Prize) for the Social Sciences.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to accurately quantify violence. And writing code that does that. My work has been covered by various news outlets and appears in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Significance, Journal of Human Rights, and at Oxford University Press. I am also the co-founder and organizer of the Zurich Summer School for Women in Political Methodology.
Since 2009, I have been working for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Read our UN report on the documented death toll in Syria here. We just published a report on the number of killings in Syrian detention centers, which you can read here.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center and the Women and Public Policy Program in the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to that I worked at the Chair for Political Science IV at the University of Mannheim, where I obtained my PhD.
Starting February, I'll be joining the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin as Professor of International and Cyber Security.
My research focuses on political violence, state repression and the measurement of human rights. My book project theoretically and empirically investigates how governments use digital communication technology to inform their strategies of violent repression. The book is based on my dissertation, which was awarded the 2014-2016 Walter Isard Dissertation Award (given every two years by the Peace Science Society International), and the Deutscher Studienpreis 2015 (German Dissertation Prize) for the Social Sciences.
I spend a lot of time thinking about how to accurately quantify violence. And writing code that does that. My work has been covered by various news outlets and appears in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Significance, Journal of Human Rights, and at Oxford University Press. I am also the co-founder and organizer of the Zurich Summer School for Women in Political Methodology.
Since 2009, I have been working for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Read our UN report on the documented death toll in Syria here. We just published a report on the number of killings in Syrian detention centers, which you can read here.