My research interests include national identity formation, organisational afterlives of movements that lead successful democratic revolutions, and the politics of the European Union. My MPhil thesis examined how ethnic power-sharing institutions shape the emergence of inclusive national communities in contemporary multi-ethnic states. Methodologically, I am interested in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, as well as mixed-methods research and the philosophy of social science.
I am also a policy analyst at Lithuania’s Government Strategic Analysis Center, where my research focuses on EU affairs and strategic foresight. In 2024-25, I served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Political Review.
Prior to the DPhil, I graduated from the University of Oxford with an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) with Distinction and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (First Class). Outside academia, I have been a research assistant at a public policy consultancy and a trainee at the Lithuanian Permanent Representation to the EU, where my work centred on the Council of the EU’s working groups on EU enlargement and relations with the Western Balkans.
