I am a Post-Doc at the Department of Sociology at the University of Graz. I completed my PhD at the University of Graz in 2023. During my PhD I had research stays at the Ecole normale supérieure (Ulm) in Paris, the Humboldt University Berlin and more recently at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. I hold an MA in sociology as well as an MA in philosophy, both from the University of Graz. During my master’s studies I spent a semester at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. 
 
My main research areas are Social Theory, Political Sociology, Microsociology, Sociology of the Body and of Emotions, Phenomenology (esp. francophone Phenomenology, Maurice Merleau-Ponty). My current research focusses on deliberative processes, both from a theoretical and empirical-interpretative perspective. I am interested in the dealings with polarization and the effects on polarization that these processes can have. I am also buzzled by different contradictions inscribed in and ambivalences of these processes. In general, my research starts from a micro perspective, researching interactions (including bodily, affective and emotional aspects). My theoretical work mainly focused on phenomenology, particularly Merleau-Pontian phenomenology, and American pragmatism, particularly works of George Herbert Mead. 

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