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. I study how citizens form political attitudes and how political elites shape public opinion—with particular focus on the rise of right-wing populism and the politics of climate change.
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 tools for text classification available 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
I have received research funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme and LSE Seed Research Fund. I serve as a peer reviewer for journals including APSR, AJPS, JOP, BJPS, CPS, and EJPR, as well as for UKRI and the British Academy. I co-organize the LSE Political Behaviour and Methodology Work-in-Progress Seminar and the 2026 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.