I am a PhD student in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a guest researcher at Institutet för Framtidsstudier, and an affiliated researcher at Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI). My main research interests lie in the subfield of comparative politics and the interdisciplinary field of demography. Within these fields, I am particularly interested in how welfare states shape and are shaped by long-term social trends, like human capital development and population aging. My primary region of focus in looking at these issues is Europe, with an emphasis on Sweden and the other Nordic countries. To a lesser extent, I am also interested in the European Union and European integration as well as social science methodology.

In my dissertation research, I am examining the development of education and training policy in Sweden and several other advanced industrial countries from a welfare state perspective. My aim in carrying out this research is to identify the key political and social factors that account for the variance in the shape and scope of these policies among advanced welfare states in the contemporary era. Moving towards this aim, I am currently conducting field research in Stockholm, Sweden.