I am a senior researcher (Oberassistent) at the International Political Economic and Environmental Politics research group at ETH Zurich (Chair: Thomas Bernauer). I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from Colorado State University (USA) in 2020, building upon degrees in Social Policy Analysis (MSc, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2010), European Politics (MA, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2009), and German (BA, Colorado State University, USA, 2007).
My current research explores how evolving incentives and capacities shape the behaviour of institutions, stakeholders, and citizens, ultimately determining the generation of environmental public goods at national and international levels. In particular, the drivers of (inter)-national climate cooperation among advanced democracies, and institutional incentives for air pollution mitigation in resource-scarce locales across Africa and Asia.
In recent years, I have co-authored contributions appearing in leading journals, such as PNAS, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Journal of European Public Policy, and Ecological Economics, and I am an associate deputy editor at Climatic Change.
My prior work has also focused on topics such as political polarization, sustainable supply chain governance, mobility and transport policy, social tipping and climate transformations, and religion, values and environmental beliefs.