I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. My dissertation, defended at the European University Institute (EUI) in 2011, analysed the impact of individual transnational practices and globalisation on EU membership support and European identity using multilevel analysis of survey data. In June 2012, it will be awarded the EUI’s Linz-Rokkan Prize for the best dissertation in political sociology.

Originally from Austria, I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Passau, Germany, and at the I.E.P.-Sciences-Po in Toulouse, France. During my PhD fellowship, I spent four months at UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies. I also held visiting positions at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and the KFG ‘Transformative Power Europe’, Free University Berlin.

I have been collaborating in a number of research projects. Among other things, I coordinated the Austrian research team of the EU Profiler, a European-wide voting advice application for the European parliamentary elections 2009. Moreover, I have been involved in the FP7 project ‘The Europeanisation of Everyday Life: Cross-border Practices and Transnational Identities among EU and Third-Country Citizens’.

My research interests focus on, but are not limited to, European integration, comparative politics, political sociology, collective identities, survey research, democratic legitimacy, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism and border regions.