I am an Associate Professor (universitetslektor) at the department of sociology at Umeå University in Sweden. My research focuses on a broad range of topics including prejudice, trust in political institutions, discrimination, and the effects of policing on society. I am particularly interested in how social change occurs over time, both within individuals and across societies, using longitudinal quantitative methods.

I am the Principal Investigator of two new research projects (started in 2024). The first project is titled Labeling Neighborhoods: Assessing the neighborhood level impact of vulnerable area designations on health, crime, and trust funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), and the second is titled Disentangling Discrimination in Europe: Patterns, processes, and consequences of discrimination experiences among multiple targeted groups in a comparative perspective funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). Both of these projects will run from 2024-2027.

In addition to these I am a part of two research groups: The Evolution of Prejudice and The UmU Barometer. My work has been published in a variety of international peer-reviewed journals including European Sociological Review, Social Science & Medicine, European Societies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Acta Sociologica, and Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World among others.