I am a first-year MPhil Comparative Government student. My research interests include the politics of difference, ethnic conflict, democratic backsliding, and the politics of the European Union.
My thesis examines the long-term effects of institutional solutions designed to manage ethnic differences in plural societies, with a particular focus on their impact on national identity and ethnic salience. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, as well as mixed-methods research and the philosophy of social science.
In 2024-25, I am serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review. I am also a policy analyst at Lithuania’s Government Strategic Analysis Center, where my research focuses on EU affairs and strategic foresight.
Before the MPhil, I graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a first-class BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Outside academia, I have been a research assistant at a public policy consultancy and a trainee at the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU, where my work centred on the Council of the EU’s working groups on EU enlargement and relations with the Western Balkans.
