Welcome!

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Insitute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). In September 2024, I completed my PhD in Political Science as part of the DYNAMICS Research Training Group, a joint initiative between the Hertie School of Governance and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From January to May 2023, I was honored to be a visiting researcher at The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and the Department of Politics, through the Initiatives on Contemporary European Affairs (ICEA) at Princeton University. I am also involved in The Humboldt Governance Lab (Humboldt GovLab).

In my research, I connect insights from comparative politics and political behavior to understand how institutions and elites shape public perceptions and inter-group dynamics, with a special focus on sexuality and gender. My research engages with work on social norms, electoral behavior, party competition, and social movements. Methodologically, I specialize in strategies for causal identification, quantitative approaches to analyzing text corpora, and experiments.

On this website you can find my publications, download my CV and learn more about my research and teaching profile. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my research and would like to chat

Recent Publications:

Haas, V. I., Stoetzer, L. F., Schleiter, P., & Klüver, H. (2023). Can wedge strategies by mainstream parties cross-cut the anti-immigration far right vote? Electoral Studies, 83, 102617.