Prior to joining the LSE, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich's Department of Political Science (Chair for Political Methodology) and the International Conflict Research (ICR) group at the ETH Zurich. She was also a pre-doctoral visiting fellow at the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yale University (New Haven, CT, USA). Her research focuses on the consequences of state violence in armed conflict, the role of non-state actors in the provision and transformation of political order, and the sources of cohesion and governance in armed groups.