Prior to his arrival at Toronto, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He received a PhD in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2013. His recent publications include “Competition and Solidarity: Union Members and Immigration in Europe” (West European Politics 2016), “Sectoral Economies, Economic Contexts, and Attitudes toward Immigration” (Journal of Politics 2013, with Rafaela Dancygier, winner of the Best article prize from the European Politics and Society section of APSA), and “Economic Performance, Individual Evaluations, and the Vote: Investigating the Causal Mechanism” (Journal of Politics 2013, with Michael Becher).