I am a MPhil student in European Politics and Society. My primary academic interests are in the field of Political Economy, Quantitative Research Methods, and Game Theory. My research focuses on political technocracy in the European Union. Specifically, the effects of EU investment on public sentiment.
Before coming to the DPIR, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Leiden University with a major in Governance, Economics and Development with Cum Laude distinction. Afterwards, I completed my MSc in Economics (Behavioral Economics and Game Theory) at the University of Amsterdam. My master thesis analysed strategic parliamentary voting games of “king-maker parties”.
I also worked as a Teaching Assistant for the Leiden Math Institute. In that role I headed the Leiden University College Statistics Center to help students with questions about statistics and quantitative research. I further taught an Experimental Economics Honors Bachelor course at the Amsterdam School of Economics.
Aside from academia, I spent a year as a member of the UvA student interview platform called Room for Discussion. There I had the opportunity to conduct interviews with politicians, academics and journalists.
