I hold a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. To finish my PhD, I also held a Doctoral Fellowship at the Ethics, Law, and Politics Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. Entitled Do Inclusive Societies Need Closed Borders?, my PhD thesis received an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award sponsored by IMISCOE, Europe's largest interdisciplinary research network in migration studies. 

Previously, I obtained my Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and my Master of Arts in World Society and Global Governance from the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. In addition, I hold a Master of Research in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.

My research has appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, International Migration Review, Comparative Migration Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Policy, Democratization, and European Political Science. For our article "Democratic Deficits in Europe",  Joachim Blatter, Andrea C. Blättler and I received the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) 2017 Best Article Prize.

Over the years, ​I have contributed to various research endeavors and institutions. Among them are the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) Project at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT) at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, and the NCCR on the move, a large research cluster in migration studies in Switzerland.

After some years as a postdoctoral lecturer and researcher, I have transitioned into the third space, working as a Research Manager at the Grants Office and Study Program Manager for LUMACSS (Lucerne Master in Computational Social Sciences) and the Digital Skills Program at the Department of Political Science of the University of Lucerne. I continue to do research on the side.