PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Zurich
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich, with research interests at the intersection of sociology and political science.
My work examines how state institutions shape national identity and the decision to naturalize. I study conscription and national belonging in reunified Germany, the effect of abolishing conscription on naturalization among second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands and Sweden, and naturalization as a response to Switzerland’s anti-Muslim referenda.
In parallel projects, I examine how administrative capacity shapes naturalization take-up in German districts, the long-run effects of conscription on immigration attitudes across eleven European countries, and the electoral consequences of the Tour de France in French municipalities. Methodologically, I rely on causal inference designs (regression discontinuity, difference-in-differences, and counterfactual estimators) applied to population registers, panel surveys, and electoral data.