I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantitative Methods in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. I am also affiliated with the Data Science Institute, the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and the Public Opinion Analytics Lab. I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2024.
Research
My research examines the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, focusing particularly on the distributive consequences of government policies in liberal democracies. I am especially interested in how political entrepreneurs captitalise on grievances related to (real or perceived) material decline. For instance, how declining local public services condition public perceptions of the social contract, and how subjective status loss interacts with feelings of belonging and political attitudes towards out-groups. Support for—and skepticism of—climate change policies is also a big part of my research agenda. Some of my ongoing projects examine how populist radical right parties politicise climate policies, and how governments can build support for costly policies intended to address the climate crisis.
Research methods are a big part of my research identity. Much of my work combines computational social science with causal inference methods. I’m especially interested in language models, and you can find some of the language models I’ve trained on Hugging Face.
Publications
My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Political Communication, Perspectives on Politics, and the Journal of European Public Policy. For a complete list, see my Research page or Google Scholar.
Public Impact
My research has been covered in The Economist, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Forbes, El País, and Internazionale, and has been cited in a UN General Assembly report on climate change.
Grants & Service
My research has been generously supported by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust and LSE. I co-organise the LSE Political Behaviour and Methodology Work-in-Progress Seminar and, starting in 2026, the inaugural LSE Climate and Political Behaviour Workshop.
Teaching
At LSE, I teach courses on research design, causal inference, data science applications, and applied language models. I also lead PhD workshops on computational methods. See my Teaching page for materials and syllabi.
My CV is available here.