I am a Senior Researcher at FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, and at the Institute of Political Studies, both hosted at the University of Lausanne. I also co-coordinate the Swiss Elite Observatory and serve on the Secretariat of the World Elite Database, an international consortium of scholars developing a standardized data regime for the comparative study of elite populations.  

As a sociologist, I specialize in two main areas: elite studies and research on research. My work on elites examines how dominant groups acquire, maintain, and transmit positions of power over time, as well as the inequalities that shape access to these positions. In the field of research on research, I teach and advise scholars on research data management and conduct research on data management practices, research evaluation, and open research data policies.

I employ a diverse array of methods, including biographical interviews, sequence analysis, network analysis, and geometric data analysis. My research has been published in journals such as Science and Public Policy, Sociology, Business History, Social Science History and Global Networks.