Biography

I am a researcher at the Institute for Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO), KU Leuven, Belgium. I am currently working on the questionnaire design and data collection for the Belgian National Electoral Study (BNES) and the Belgian Ethnic Minorities Election Study (BEMES).

My research interests are mostly within the field of public opinion, voting behaviour, and attitudes towards democracy. Specifically, I am working on radical belief systems, conditionality of liberal values, and polarisation.

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

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

I love cooking, games, reading about tech stuff, and programming. Huge Linux/Unix fan boy.

Instructor for the following courses:

• Introduction to Conjoint Experiments (ECPR Winter School, 2020)

• Propensity Matching and Standardisation techniques (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 2019)

I have served as Teaching Assistant for the following courses:

• Advance Multilevel Modelling (Levente (Levi) Littvay, ECPR, 2020)

• Automated Collection of Web and Social Data (Theresa Gessler (2019) and Pablo Barbera (2018), ECPR)

• R Basics (Akos Mate, ECPR, 2018)

• Text Mining Boot Camp (ITI Project, Central European University, 2018)

• Regression Refresher (Levente (Levi) Littvay, ECPR, 2018)

• Experimental Political Science (Levente (Levi) Littvay, Central European University, 2018)

• Text Analysis Across Discipline (ITI Project, Central European University, 2017)