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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 everywhere in between. I explore these questions using a variety of methods, from experiments and surveys to digital data analysis and text-as-data approaches.

I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (University of Mannheim) and an honorary research fellow at the University of Warwick. In my position as a fellow, I have started working on topics surrounding identity and mobility as well as migration in older age. I also collaborate on the project Making Diversity Work, where we focus on exploring intergroup relations and social cohesion within Europe, using primarily experimental methods. 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.