Welcome
I am a researcher at the Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich. Recently, I finished my PhD thesis entitled Strength and Limits of Neoliberal Dominance. An Analysis of the Debate on Economic Liberalization in Western Europe. From 2009 until 2011, I was a visting researcher at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute and a visiting research fellow at the New York University. From 2006 until 2011, I worked at the Center for Comparative and International Studies of the University of Zurich, i.e. in the project National Political Change in a Globalizing World. In this project, we assessed the transformation of the cleavage structure in Western European countries induced by globalization.
My research has two main pillars. On the one hand, I study the processes of economic liberalization in a comparative perspective. Here, I am particularly interested in capitalist regimes and public discourse. On the other hand, I focus on the application of computional linguistic techniques and tools for text analyses in social sciences.