I am assistant professor/postdoctoral fellow in the Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes (ELDAR) project at the University of Oslo and a non-resident fellow in the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich. I am also a member of the DE-CONSPIRATOR Network of Interest (NoI) — an inniative connecting researchers, policymakers, and civil society to combat Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

While most of my work is on digital politics, my research speaks to the fields of comparative politics, conflict studies, political communication, and applied data science. More specifically, I study the use and impact of digital technologies such as online censorship and propaganda with an emphasis on authoritarian regimes. Concering the latter, I have worked a lot on visual power-projecting propaganda (see ECPR’s The Loop for a blog post on this research). More recently, I have become increasingly interested in how these and other authoritarian strategies are used in democracies too.

My research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research, among others.

In 2025, my co-authors Adrian Del Río, Carl Henrik Knutsen, and I, were awarded with the 2025 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Best Dataset Honorable Mention by APSA’s Comparative Politics Section.

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