Her research and teaching interests are in comparative politics, public opinion, political representation and quantitative research methods. She specializes in large-scale data harmonization and analysis. She has special exertise in web-harvesting of government-produced data ofall kinds. Some of her work has been published in European Union Politics, West European Politics, Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary European Research and several edited volumes. Previously she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Visiting Scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and at UC Berkeley, and an Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.