I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I am also affiliated with the Department of Political Science at LMU Munich, where I direct the project PINPOINT | Politics, Institutions, and Production Networks, supported by an ERC Starting Grant.
My research agenda falls into three areas: political institutions and trade; the ownership structure of firms and government debt; and quantitative methods. My work won the Lawrence Longley Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association, the Marian Irish Best Paper Award from the Southern Political Science Association, as well as the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award and the Overall Best Paper Award from the Southern Political Science Association. You can find more information on my published research here.
Before joining Washington University in St. Louis, I was a faculty member in the School of Management and in the School of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (2020-2023), and in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University (2015-2020). I earned my PhD in 2015 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an MSc in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.