I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Bayreuth, where I work with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Braun on a DFG-funded project on historical political economy and demographic change in Germany.

My research examines how religion and social cleavages shaped political behavior and demographic change in modern Germany. I combine newly constructed historical data with econometric methods to study long-run political and demographic change. I also develop transparent and reproducible workflows using OCR, machine learning, and large language models to transform archival sources into structured research data.