I research exceptional agency. Those agents called brokers, innovators, leaders, entrepreneurs.

I currently actively collaborate with colleagues in Luxembourg, the US, the UK, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

Recent output

• Social Network Analysis of Spatial Effects on Policy Interaction Geographical Analysis 

• Reputational leadership and preference similarity: Explaining organisational collaboration in bank policy networks European Journal of Political Research

• Adaptive Capacity Through Governance Networks’ Environmental Science and Policy

• ‘Governance Networks in Politics’ in Hollstein et al (eds) Networked Governance. Springer.

• ‘Prescriptive Conflict Prevention Analysis’ Environmental Science and Policy

• ‘The impact of social networks on leadership behaviour‘ Methodological Innovations

• ‘Exceptional or just well connected? Political entrepreneurs and brokers in policy making’ The European Political Science Review

• ‘The Motivation of Social Entrepreneurs: The roles, agendas and relations of altruistic economic actors’ The Journal of Social Entrepreneurship