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, biking, and reading about stuff I know little about.

Research

My research interests include radicalism, voting behaviour, democratic representation, and methodology. My PhD is on developing a new way to conceptualize and measure radical belief systems, the conditional endorsement of liberal values by radical and populist voters, and the role of radical beliefs as drivers of opinion extremity and inter-group animosity. I am currently working on the questionnaire design, data collection and analysis of the Belgian National Electoral Study.

Methodologically, I am particularly interested in conjoint analysis, matching techniques, text as data, machine learning, and big data. I currently working on improving conjoint experiment designs, a new way to discover treatment heterogeneity using conjoint data, and interviewer effects in face-to-face surveys.

I am a member of the survey and experimental teams of Team Populism, a research group that brings together scholars from Europe and the Americas to study the causes and consequences of populism. Together with Luca and Hanne, I run MethLab, a PhD-led initiative to encourage (qualitative and quantitative) research methods training. I am also among the founding members of Methods Excellence Network.

Private Sector

I am an external consultant and analyst for ZK Analytics.

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