Welcome

I am full professor for international relations and political economy at the Department of Political Science (IPZ) at the University of Zurich.

I studied public policy and economics in Konstanz, Montréal, and Barcelona and graduated from ETH Zurich in 2007 with a PhD in Political Science and a dissertation on the political economy of currency crises in 2007. In 2008-09 I held a Fritz-Thyssen-Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and then joined the department of political science at the University of Heidelberg as Junior Professor for International and Comparative Political Economy. I have been working at the University of Zurich's institute for political science (IPZ) since 2013.

My research concentrates on the fields of international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on distributional conflicts, political preferences and economic policy outcomes related to globalization, European integration, and financial crises. Current projects examine the mass politics of disintegration, Brexit, and the backlash against globalization.

My work has been published by outlets such as American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies, European Union Politics, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and Oxford University Press.

More about me:

• My Lehrstuhl (Chair) website at IPZ at the University of Zurich, with more information about my team.
• Website of my ERC Project "The Mass Politics of Disintegration - DISINTEGRATION"
• Portraits about me and my research: here, here (English) and here (German)

Recently in the media

Interviews in Die ZEIT, Schweizer Monat, Der Standard, Handelszeitung, LuzernerZeitung/St.Galler Tagblatt, UZH Magazin, 3sat, and Echo der Zeit about my research on globalization.

My research on the Eurozone crisis has been discussed by the FT Alphaville blog. Die Republik and die Sonntagszeitung discussed my research with John Ahlquist and Mark Copelovitch on how the Swiss franc shock affected the 2015 Polish elections.

Radio interviews about the EU and the backlash against globalization on SRF1,  SRF2 Kultur, SRF4 News,  npr, and monocle radio.

TV appearances in "NZZ Standpunkte", "SRF Arena", "SRF Club", "TeleZüri" on globalization, the EU and world politics.

Interviews about Brexit and its implications for Switzerland in the Aargauer Zeitung, Radio Zürisee, CBC radio, SRF Tagesgespräch, SRF4 News, SRF Rumantsch, and Radio 3FACH.

Last update: 13 April 2021

Foto by Pascal Halder