About me

I am an international security researcher focused on China, originally hailing from Germany.

My research focuses on understudied economic, technological, military, and political chokepoints that can influence global peace and security. In the past, I have researched and written about shipbuilding, customs scanners, AI deployment, datacenters, critical minerals, and renewable energy. The main research question I hope to answer in my analysis is:

What chokepoints yet-to-come remain understudied, and can be proactively researched and addressed?

Over the past few years, I have served as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, and as a researcher at AidData. I am currently the Roy Gibson Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, where I research the intersection of China and space policy.

I gained my bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and my master’s degree as a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University.

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