I am a Research Associate at the Center for Crisis Early Warning at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, and a member of the Research School on Peace & Conflict at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. I earned my PhD from the Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin. In addition, I hold a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Mannheim and an M.A. in International Relations (Research Track) from the University of Nottingham.
My research interests are explaining and predicting political violence and instability. This includes, but is not limited to, terrorism & insurgencies and civil & international conflict. Methodologically, I am interested in both frequentist and Bayesian statistics, computational social science, and spatial analyses. My dissertation seeks to explain and predict the adoption, timing, and location of terrorism in civil conflicts. My work has been published in International Studies Quarterly and International Interactions. You can find preprints, supplementary materials, replication code and data for my published work on my OSF profile and Dataverse.
PhD in Political Science
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
MA in International Relations (Research Track)
University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
MA in Political Science
University of Mannheim, Germany
BA in Political Science
University of Mannheim, Germany