About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Immigration Policy Lab and the Public Policy Group at ETH Zürich. My research is organised around two related themes. First, I study how political actors compete for attention and influence public opinion in contemporary democracies, with a particular focus on social movements. Second, I investigate how online platforms and information environments can be designed to improve the quality of public discourse and foster more constructive forms of democratic engagement. Across both strands, I use computational social science, natural language processing, and experimental methods to study the dynamics of communication and political behaviour.

I completed my PhD in Political Science at University College London in 2025. My dissertation examined the trade-off faced by social movements between attracting attention through disruptive protest and maintaining persuasive appeal among broader publics. Using computational text analysis and survey experiments, I studied how disruptive tactics affect media visibility, as well as their downstream effects on public opinion and wider public discourse surrounding the issues they target. At ETH Zürich, I am currently working on the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Improving the Quality of Online Public Discourse”, where I develop and evaluate interventions aimed at promoting healthier online conversations through content moderation and platform design.