I am a postdoctoral fellow in political science at the University of St. Gallen. I hold a PhD from Aarhus University (2022) and Master’s degrees from the Universities of Konstanz and Gothenburg (2018). My research focuses on conflicts, armament, and arms control and their relationship. My research has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Journal of Peace Research, Political Science Research and Methods, and Conflict Management and Peace Science (➜ Publications).

In my PhD thesis, I examined the impact of different types of security threats on states' positions toward arms control. To do so, I introduced the first comprehensive measure of state support for arms control that covers all countries and variation over time by combining UN General Assembly voting data with manual coding of resolutions. In three quantitative studies of external threats, major power threats, and civil wars, respectively, I found that the relationship between security threats and states’ arms control support is neither limited to external threats nor strictly negative, but context-specific.

My postdoctoral research (➜ Ongoing Research) primarily deals with individual attitudes toward armament and the use of force. I am currently involved in several projects and examine, among other things, moral dilemmas in drone warfare, citizens’ and politicians’ attitudes toward arms exports, and the impact of right-wing terrorism on evaluations of far-right parties.