CURRENT POSITION
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
EDUCATION
EDITORIAL DUTIES
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
GRANTS, PROJECTS, AWARDS
OTHER EDUCATION
- Professor of Comparative Politics, Universität Salzburg, October 2013.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
- Senior Research Associate, GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES).
- Chair of Comparative Government (visiting professor), University of Mannheim, Lehrstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft III (Comparative Government), September 1 2010 – July 31 2011.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. 2008. Department of Political Science, McGill University
- M.Sc. 2001.Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
- B.Sc. 1999. Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
EDITORIAL DUTIES
- Co-lead editor, European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG). September 2020-2024.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
- German Politics
- Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties
- Elections and Representation section in Frontiers in Political Science
SCIENTIFIC BOARDS
- The Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Principal reporter for the social sciences (Referentin) and member of the board (Kuratorium), 2017-2020 (Social Science I), 2020-2023 (Political Science and Law).
- Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AuSSDA), Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, 2017-2020.
- GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Member of the Scientific Advisory Board 2016-2020, 2020-2024.
- Representative for the University of Salzburg, PUMA: Plattform für Umfragen, Methoden und Empirische Analysen, 2015-2019.
- Section Chair, Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting 2014, Gender and Politics.
GRANTS, PROJECTS, AWARDS
- 2021-2024. “Gender in Contemporary Europe: Rethinking Equality and the Backlash,” European Social Survey (ESS), module round 11 (with Susan Banducci, Amy Alexander, Marta Fraile, & Hilde Coffe).
- 2021-2025. doc.funds doctoral college, Salzburg Center of European Union Studies (SCEUS), University Salzburg: “Challenges of European Integration” (coordinators Michael Blauberger and Gabriele Spilker), funded by the FWF.
- 2015. Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF Austria) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG Germany). For the project “The Consequences of Electoral System Change in Modern Democracies. Co PI with Philipp Harfst. (2015-2017).
- 2014. Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, research grant for the project “The Electoral Sucess of Women across Different Levels of Government.” Co PI with Christina Eder.
- 2008-2010. Fond Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC), Postdoctoral Research Grant, March 2008-February 2010 (64 000 CAD).
- 2008. Doctoral dissertation: Post-communism or Post-colonialism? Soviet Imperial Legacies and Regime Diversity in East Europe and the former USSR. Nominated by McGill University to the “Prix d’Excellence de l’Association des Doyens des Études Supérieures du Québec.”
- 2007. Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), Research Grant for completion of dissertation, July to December 2007.
- 2006-2007. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, Regional Business Fellowship, Awarded by the Center for the Study of Democracy and regional businesses, January 2006-June 2007.
- 2003-2004. McGill University, Social Statistics Summer Training Grant for participation at ICPSR.
- 2002. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-2005.
- 2001. McGill University, Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship.
- 2001. Université de Montréal, mention of excellence and nomination on the Dean’s list for average kept over 4.0 on 4.3 at the M.sc level, 2001.
- 1999. Université de Montréal, mention of excellence and nomination on the Dean’s list for average kept over 3.7 on 4.3 at the B.sc level, 199
OTHER EDUCATION
- 2012. Workshop in Comparative Research Methods: Analysing Cross-National and Multi-level Data in the Social Sciences. ELECDEM Training Network in Electoral Democracy.
- 2009. Multi-level Structural Equation Modeling with Mplus. GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences.
- 2004. Regression Analysis III: Advanced Methods. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2004. Bayesian Estimation. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2004. Quantitative Methods in the Study of Russia and Eastern Europe. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2003. Seminar in Longitudinal data Analysis: Event History Analysis. Quebec Inter-University Center for Social Statistics.
- 2003. Regression Analysis II: Linear Models. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2003. Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Generalized Linear Models. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2003. Computing in R. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2003.
- 2003. Seminar in Statistics. McGill University, graduate level seminar, 2003.
- 2002. Regression Analysis I: Introduction. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
- 2002. Computing in SAS, STATA, SPSS. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2002.