cv

PhD in Political and Social Sciences

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• Thesis title: Parties and Protests in Crisis‑Hit Europe – Continuity and Change in the Structure of Political Conflict
• Supervisor: Hanspeter Kriesi

Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Master of Arts in Political Science, specialization in electoral politics

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

• Thesis title: Preference for the Public Good. Programmatic Linkages in Hungary and Romania

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, English track of studies

Babeş‑Bolyai University, Cluj‑Napoca, Romania

• Thesis title: The Kurdish Issue of Turkey in a Game Theory Framework

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Hungarian track of studies

Babeş‑Bolyai University, Cluj‑Napoca, Romania

• Thesis title: Nationalism and Liberalism – Historical and Theoretical Links

Erasmus student

Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey

• Department of Political Science and Public Administration

Q-Step Centre Summer School Social Network Analysis

University of Glasgow (inst: Michael T. Heaney)

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Sciences

University of Bamberg

Teaching in Higher Education

European University Institute

ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques

Applied Multilevel Modelling (inst: Zoltán Fazekas)

Citizens' Resilience in Times of Crisis

LIVEWHAT - Living with Hard Times & COSMOS Center on Social Movement Studies - Scuola Normale Superiore

Postdoctoral Researcher

Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center

• Developing two key projects on
  • Political Parties in Movements (PI: Swen Hutter)
  • The Potentials of Civil Society: Solidarity and Crisis Management (PI: Swen Hutter, Jule Specht, Christian von Scheve)

PhD researcher, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

• ERC project Political Conflict in Europe in the Shadow of the Great Recession (POLCON, PI: Hanspeter Kriesi)

Visiting Researcher

Eurolab, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany

• Researching defection from parties in government over time and across countries, based on 2004, 2009, and 2014 waves of the European Election Studies

Research Assistant

Median Research Center, Bucharest, Romania

• Research assistant: tracker for votes and pledges of MPs; RO part of the Comparative Candidates Survey (2012, 2016); deliberative poll experiment; territorial autonomy arrangements; rolling cross sectional survey for media effects before the 2014 elections