His research interests cover European integration, foreign policy, and qualitative case study methods. He holds an MSc from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, an MA from the Department of Political Science in Aarhus, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He has been a visiting researcher at Georgetown University, American University, and SAIS Johns Hopkins. He is actively involved in teaching research methods to Ph.D. students within both ECPR and IPSA. His most recent publications include: ‘Process Tracing methods: Foundations and Guidelines’ (University of Michigan Press), and ‘Analyzing Foreign Policy’ (Palgrave Macmillan).