I research how artificial intelligence can strengthen democracy, and how it can undermine it.

Now

PhD candidate at DDIS, University of Zurich, in the interdisciplinary Digital Deliberative Democracy (D3) project, working on AI for citizen participation and deliberation, and on the ways it can undermine democracy. Also the PhD representative of the IFI department.

Before

Linguistics (BA) and Artificial Intelligence (BSc, MSc). Member of the OEC faculty assembly until 2026, and part of the DSI PhD Excellence programme.

Off work

I run along the Limmat, swim in a Badi, and spend evenings with my fiancée and our two cats. In between: daily puzzles, books and music. Always up for a new game.

News All

1. Nov 2026Visiting EMNLP and presenting our Subliminal Learning paper
2. Sep 2026Subliminal learning reproduction accepted at BlackboxNLP 2026
3. Jul 2026Best Poster Honorable Mention at CUI '26 in Bremen
4. Jun 2026Graduating from the DSI PhD Excellence Program

Publications All

1. 2026Reproducing and Evaluating the Generalizability of Subliminal Learning in Open-Weight ModelsThe Ninth Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP (BlackboxNLP 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026, Budapest, Hungary
2. 2026Towards a Typology of User Engagement in Conversational Agent Voting Advice ApplicationsACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '26), Bremen, Germany
3. 2026Estimating the Recommendation Certainty in Candidate-Based Voting Advice ApplicationsPolitics and Governance
4. 2025Adaptive political surveys and GPT-4: Tackling the cold start problem with simulated user interactionsPLoS One