I’m a PhD candidate in Public Management at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. I am currently a visiting scholar at the School of Public Affairs at American University.
My research sits at the intersection of economics, public management, and public policy, with a focus on how organizations collaborate across sectoral boundaries. I explore the institutional environment that shapes partnership outcomes, how organizations select their collaborative partners, and how citizens perceive and assign accountability when service delivery spans multiple sectors. I am particularly interested in understanding why some collaborations thrive while others fail, and what that means for democratic governance and public trust.
Methodologically, I draw on a range of approaches to match the complexity of these questions. My work employs survey experiments and conjoint analyses to study citizen attitudes and organizational decision-making, large-scale datasets to identify patterns across institutional contexts, media analysis to trace how partnership failures enter public discourse, and qualitative interviews to capture the perspectives of practitioners navigating collaboration on the ground. This mixed-methods orientation reflects my conviction that understanding collaborative governance requires moving between the macro-level structures that enable or constrain partnerships and the micro-level experiences of the people involved in them.
My work has been published in leading journals in the field, such as Public Administration.
I am currently based in Singapore and I am on the academic job market in 2025/26.