Academic interests
- Mental health inequalities and marginalization
- Loneliness and physical health
- Socially marginalized populations
- Longitudinal data analysis and structural equation modeling
- Causal inference with observational data
Research
Within my Ph.D. project, Longitudinal Pathways into Marginalization, I will investigate how complex marginalization processes in domains such as social relationships, work/education, and mental and physical health unfold and interact from adolescence to midlife. More specifically, I am interested in the life-course development and underlying causes of mental health inequalities and how loneliness affects physical health. I will draw on a 28-year longitudinal population-based study, Young in Norway, combining large-scale survey data, national register data, and molecular genetic data. Besides longitudinal data analysis and structural equation modeling, I am also interested in causal inference with observational data.
Background
In 2023, I completed a master’s degree in psychology at the University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in clinical and health psychology. I have also worked as a research assistant at the Czech National Institute of Mental Health. Here, I gained research experience designing and conducting population-based epidemiological surveys and observational studies on national health register data.