Erik has worked in the field of peace and stabilization, development and international politics. Leveraging both quantitative and qualitative methods, he has covered peace and stabilization in the Horn of Africa, with a particular focus on Somalia and the terrorist organization al-Shabaab; the presence and effect of vigilante militia groups on the security situation on the African continent; the unintended effects of microfinance as a development tool; and the effect of UN Security Council signaling on the duration of civil wars. In this endeavor, he has acquired extensive knowledge of applying state-of-the-art quantitative methods such as:

• Causal attribution analysis (Experimental and quasi-experimental designs, and statistical modeling)
• AI (Working with Large Language Models and prompt engineering)
• Machine learning (Supervised and semi-supervised learning)
• GIS (Estimation techniques, map making, and applying raster and shapefiles)
• Data science (Web scraping, data wrangling, visualization)

• Peace and Stabilization Research
• African Security Studies
• Development Interventions and Unintended Consequences
• Conflict Duration and International Diplomacy
• Advanced Quantitative Methodologies

Language
Danish: Native
 English: Fluent