Research interests: 

• Digital governance
• Environmental politics
• Political economy
• Regional focus: China

Current research projects: 

• Recipient of an ERC Starting Grant 2019: “Governing with Data: Local Experimentation in Authoritarian China” (2020-2025), more details will follow.
• VW-Foundation Planning Grant (2019-2020): 'State-business relations in the Field of Artificial Intelligence and its Implications for Society‘
• Cross-national survey on social acceptance of facial recognition technologies: Working paper available here
• Social Credit Systems (SCSs) in China 
  • Paper explaining high public acceptance: available here (published in New Media & Society 2019)
  • Paper studying changing behavior: available here (published in Policy & Internet 2019)
• DFG Project (2018-2021): Interjurisdictional Competition and Cooperation in China
• DFG Project (2018-2021): Infrastructure Provision in China

  • Digital governance in Chinese smart cities: Call for Papers for Workshop May 2019

• Digital Transformation in China (Workshop 2018)
• Data, Technology and Digitalization & Environmental Governance in China (May Workshop 2018)