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 agenda intersects climate change politics, the rise of right-wing populism, and political communication. Substantively, I examine questions such as: How do radical right parties talk about climate change? What drives the emerging gender gap among young voters? How does the decline of public services fuel support for populist movements? And how does political communication—especially from political leaders on social media—translate to changes in offline political behavior?
Methodologically, I combine causal inference techniques with computational methods, including natural language processing and machine learning. I develop and train language models for social science applications and have created several open-source classification and generative models that are available on Hugging Face.
My current projects examine the political consequences of household energy prices in the UK (funded by the British Academy) and how populist radical right party entry affects mainstream party communication about climate change in Western Europe (funded by LSE).
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-organize 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.