I am a quantitative social scientist, statistician, and R enthusiast. I am currently an FWO PhD Fellow at the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO), KU Leuven, Belgium. I finished my MA at the Central European University, Budapest. I have too many hobbies but what never gets me tired is cooking, crafting, and reading about how individuals make choices. Huge Linux fan boy.

Research

My research interests are mostly within the field of public opinion, statistics, voting behaviour, and attitudes towards democracy. My PhD is on radical belief systems, conditionality of liberal values, and political polarisation. I am currently working on the questionnaire design, data collection and analysis of the Belgian National Electoral Study.

Methods wise, I am particularly interested in conjoint analysis, matching and standardization techniques, graphical causal models, machine learning, and big data.

I am a member of the survey and experimental teams of Team Populism, a research group that brings together renowned scholars from Europe and the Americas to study the causes and consequences of populism. Together with Luca and Amandine, I run the MethLab, an initiative to discuss and learn cool research methods.

Private Sector

I am an external consultant and analyst for ZK Analytics and for the European Consortium for Political Research (Methods Schools).

Download my resumé.