I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim and previously a Research Associate at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and the Collaborative Research Center 884 “Political Economy of Reforms.” I hold a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Mannheim. My research focuses on judicial politics and interest group representation in case studies and in comparative contexts. I rely primarily on quantitative and mixed-method approaches including Bayesian and frequentist inference, simulation, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and automated classification.

In my doctoral research, I investigate how constitutional courts generate publicity for their decisions and how different interest groups shape judicial decision-making and publicity surrounding courts. I examine judicial procedures and decisions with a focus on interest group litigation, briefs, oral hearings, and media coverage. Interest groups play a dual role at highest courts: First, they participate directly as litigants, through briefs and oral hearings. Second, as intermediaries who facilitate communication between courts, journalists, and the broader public they indirectly affect judicial outcomes. As such, they can act as communication agents to courts. Empirically, I focus on the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Israeli High Court of Justice to assess the influence of interest groups on the courts’ decision-making and public visibility. In this context, I joined the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2024 supported by the Minerva Foundation.