I am researching political economy and state-society relations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

So far, my research has focused on meaning making, protest and conflict over taxation and infrastructural development in rapidly growing informal economies, particularly in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Currently, I am researching the political economy of food system governance and food security in East Africa. Rooted in interpretive and etnographic approaches, I examine how meaning making, governance and conflict over food security play out - and shape - the relationship between the state and disadvantaged groups in the border region between Uganda and Tanzania.

At the BA-level, I am teaching Comparative Politics, previously as a teaching assistant and now as a lecturer. I have also developed and taught an MA-level seminar on urban political economy in the global South focusing on the intersection between politics, capital, infrastructural development and power.

I am a co-developer and -teacher of a new mandatory methods course at the MA-level (running from the fall of 2026). Specifically, I am responsible for the course part on interpretive methods in political science.