I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Gothenburg and V-Dem Institute. I received my PhD in Political Science at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2023, and I was a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University (Here is my CV). My work has been published at the Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, and Journal of East Asian Studies.

My research interests center on comparative politics, political institutions, regime stability and change, and political behaviour. I use political parties to explain episodes of autocratization and authoritarian stability. I enjoy developing advanced research designs using a variety of data and methods including causal inference, panel data, text-as-data, archival, web scraping, and case studies including surveys and fieldwork interviews.

Among my data release there is “OPAMED,” the first dataset on party members in autocracies, which you can download here.

I received the 2022 Virginia Gray Graduate Student Award by APSA Political Organisations and Parties Section and the title of Outstanding Research Award by HKU for my dissertation. My research has been primarily funded by HKU Graduate School, the HKU Department of Politics and Public Administration, and Department of Government at Cornell.

I am co-founder and co-organizer of the Authoritarian Political Systems Group (APSG) .