Holds a B.A. and a M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a joint Ph.D. in political science from Sciences Po and the University of Cologne. Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne between 2002 and 2006. Winner of the Lipset Prize of the Society for Comparative Research in 2005; awarded the Akademiestipendium of the Berlin Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Otto-Hahn-Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2006.
Associate Dean for Research at Sciences Po since June 2008 and leader of a Otto-Hahn Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies since 2009.
On leave at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University 2011-2012
Her research focuses on the international political economy and economic sociology, in particular regulatory issues in the European Union and the United States.
Research interests
- Lobbying and interest groups
- Financial regulation
- Political economy of the European Union