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Welcome! I am a Professor of International Relations and Data Science at ETH Zurich. I am also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (both at Nuffield College and the Department of Political Science & International Relations). Previously, I was a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Oxford (DPIR and Nuffield College); as well an Assistant Professor at Duke University (Department of Political Science) and the London School of Economics (Department of Government). I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of Zurich and was a post-doctoral researcher at the UZH-ETH Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), as well as a pre-doctoral visiting fellow at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University.

My research focuses on the social and institutional implications of violence and conflict, and on avenues to reduce political and gender-based violence. Current projects leverage novel data collection and analysis techniques to examine state-led atrocities against civilians during war; attitudes towards the use of force; the diffusion of norms related to gender-based violence; and the consequences of activism for norm change and backlash. Methodologically, my research straddles multiple levels of analysis from the local to the international and draws on a broad variety of strategies for data collection and analysis. 

My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research, among others. It has been funded by organizations such the US National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Swiss Network for International Studies, and the Peace and Recovery  Program of Innovation for Poverty Action. It received the MPSA Best Paper by Emerging Scholar Award and the Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research (1st prize, young researcher category), among other awards. Please feel free to contact me directly for access to working papers.

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