Introduction

I am a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Political Science. I am also a Doctoral Candidate (DPhil) at the Department of Politics and International Relations​, University of Oxford, fully funded by a DPIR Scholarship. I read Law at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London.

My research interests lie in understanding how individuals think about economic inequality and its sources. I use experimental methods to uncover individuals’ attitudes towards policies that aim at reducing economic inequality such as including immigrants into the welfare state, increasing taxes on the super-rich or decreasing the salary gap between highly and lowly paid occupations. Apart from looking at public support for certain policies, I also explore how individuals justify market inequality in the first place.

Research

I am a final year DPhil student in International Relations at DPIR researching security and defence cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic community. In an effort to develop a community-based account of European defence integration, my dissertation analyses the social motivations underlying two transformative phases of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. My broader research interests include International Relations & European Integration theory as well as Foreign-Policy Analysis.