My research interests include political communication and social media, political participation, and elite studies.

Currently, I am the co-PI (together with Cecilia Cassinger) of Communication, Defense Willingness, and Democratic Resilience (CDR). This research initiative is a part of Lund University Centre for Preparedness and Resilience (LUPREP), has received seed funding from the university and will initially run 2025–2027. 

Also together with Cecilia Cassinger, I lead the CDR hosted research project INFLU-NORD: "The Double Edge of Social Media Influencing: Participatory Antagonism and Communicative Resilience in the Nordics" with 12 MSEK funding from Nordforsk. The project runs 2026–2029.

I am additionally the Co-PI (together with Anna Tyllström) of the VR funded project Splittring eller enighet? Nätverk och organisationer i den svenska makteliten (Fragmentation or Unity? Networks and Organizations in the Swedish Power Elite). The project has been granted 6.8 MSEK and will run 2026–2029.

2019–2023 I was the PI of the research initiative Social Information and Hybrid Power – A Strategic Platform for Political Communication funded by Lund University.

Since 2018, I have been participating in a longitudinal and comparative study of student career networks at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and the Hanken Business School in Helsinki. The core team currently consists of Anna Tyllström, Institute for Future Studies/Uppsala University, Sofiya Voytiv, Institute for Future Studies/Stockholm University and me. The project has received grants from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2018-2022), the Swedish Research Council (2018-2022), The Crafoord Foundation (2022-2025), and Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser (2022-2025).

In 2015, together with Lund political scientists Malena Rosén Sundström and Hanna Bäck and Emma Bäck of the Department of Psychology at the university of Gothenburg, I was awarded a 5 MSEK research grant from the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for the project "Political participation among young people – from party democrats to social media activists?". During 2015-2018, the project studies the development of political participation among young people in Sweden. 

Hanna Bäck, Emma Bäck and myself also formed one of the research teams that aided the Democracy Study of the Swedish government (Demokratiutredningen). The report was published in 2015. 

2013-2014 I was involved in the NEMO project (New Media, Modern Democracy) here at the Department of Strategic Communication, with a study on social media in the Swedish Riksdag. 

I defended my doctoral dissertation in political science "Leetocracy: political participation, social network sites and inequality" on 3 May 2013. Faculty examiner was associate professor Eva Anduiza, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Here is the online version of the thesis (excluding two unpublished texts): Leetocracy

I currently teach Political Communication and Research Ethics as well as supervising Bachelor and Master theses. I have previously taught Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, Philosophy of Science, Public Administration, and Swedish Politics.