Grüezi!

I am a sociologist with a background in computer science and a strong focus on computational and quantitative methods. I am particularly interested in understanding how individuals are shaped by their social contexts and how groups form, interact, and shape each other - online, offline, and everything in between. I explore these questions using a variety of methods, from experiments to digital data analysis.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (University of Mannheim) and an honorary research fellow at the University of Warwick. I currently work within the project Making Diversity Work, where I focus on exploring intergroup relations and social cohesion within Europe, using primarily experimental methods, with a particular interest in discrimination research. Additionally, I collaborate on applied projects such as Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change with researchers from the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana which aims at assessing online open content and supporting community engagement with visualisation tools.

Previously, I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick (in 2023), where I studied the impact of offline interactions on online group behaviour within Wikipedia, funded by a Wikimedia Project Grant. I have also held a Digital Humanities Fellowship at the German National Library and contributed to impact evaluations with Oxfam GB, applying digital data expertise across social research.

For a complete and up-to-date list of my academic publications, see my Google Scholar profile.