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 rise of right-wing populism, focusing on how climate change policies are strategically instrumentalised by political actors to mobilise voters and influence public opinion. I am particularly interested in how political communication from elites interacts with voters’ material conditions to shape preferences and political behaviour.
Methodologically, I often combine causal inference methods with computational social science techniques, including natural language processing and machine learning. Much of my past work has relied on collecting and aggregating scraped text data from political parties and social media, and training and validating small-medium sized language models for particular applications. You can find several of the models I’ve trained on Hugging Face.
My current projects examine the political consequences of higher household energy prices in the UK (funded by the British Academy) and how populist radical right parties talked about climate change after the energy crisis 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-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.