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Welcome! I am a professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen and a Trond Mohn Foundation Fellow. In 2021, I successfully concluded the project The Politics of Inequality. How Representative Democracy (Mal-) Functions in Europe, funded by the Trond Mohn Foundation and the University of Bergen. In this project, we examined political inequality and the lack of representation from various angles. More generally, my research interest is in democracies, how these function, change, and how institutions affect citizen behaviour in them. I am particularly interested in the workings of democratic representation.

I received my PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence in 2011, and have previously held positions as a researcher at the EUI and as an assistant professor at the Universität Humboldt. I was awarded the François Mény Prize for the Best Comparative Study of Political Institutions in 2012 and the Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize for one of two best articles in West European Politics in 2016.

This website offers information about my former and current work within the field of comparative politics and political science.