Curriculum vitae

Updated 27 September 2026

Education

• Ph.D. in Government — University of Essex
  October 2024–October 2027 (expected).
• MSc in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences — London School of Economics and Political Science
  September 2023–August 2024.
• MSc in Philosophy, Science and Religion — University of Edinburgh
  September 2022–August 2023.
• Postgraduate Certificate in Philosophy and Ethics — Harvard Extension School
  June 2021–May 2022.
• Bachelor of Science in Economics — University of Connecticut
  August 2018–May 2020.
• Environmental and Resource Economics major; Political Science minor — University of New Hampshire
  August 2014–May 2017. Transferred to the University of Connecticut in Fall 2018.

Work experience & teaching

• Fixed-Term Lecturer in Computational Social Science — University of Essex, Department of Sociology and Criminology
  October 2026–Present.
  • Introduction to Social Data Science — SC207, Autumn 2026.
• Teaching Assistant — UCL Department of Political Science
  September 2026–Present. Undergraduate courses:
  • Data Analysis — POLS0010, Spring 2027.
  • Ethics and Public Policy — POLS0064, Fall 2027.
• Mercatus Fellowship — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
  August 2026–Present. Applied Mainline Political Economy.
• Teaching Assistant — Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
  July 2026. Postgraduate courses:
  • Applied Causal Inference with Observational Data.
  • Causal Inference and Experiments in the Social Sciences.
• Research Assistant for Professor Tobias Bohmelt — University of Essex, Department of Government
  April 2026–September 2026.
• Policy Fellowship — Council for Countering Online Disinformation (CCOD)
  April 2026–September 2026.
• Teaching Assistant — UCL Department of Political Science
  January 2026–June 2026. Undergraduate courses:
  • Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods — POLS0008, Spring 2026.
  • Science, Scientific Discovery and Statistics — POLS0060, Spring 2026.
• Research Affiliate — LSE Hayek Programme in Liberal Political Economy
  January 2026–Present.
• Research Fellowship — Earth System Governance Project
  November 2025–Present.
• Ronald Coase Fellowship — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
  August 2025–August 2026.
• Teaching Assistant — Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis
  July 2025–August 2025. Postgraduate courses:
  • Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis.
  • Quantitative Data Analysis and Statistical Graphics with R.
• Research Associate in Online Moral Contagion — Oxford Computational Political Science Group, Oxford Internet Institute (OII)
  March 2025–March 2026.
• Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
  September 2023–June 2024.

Publications

• The Epistemic Frontier of Capitalism: A Theory of Epistemic Regression through Artificial Intelligence and Misinformation
  The Cambridge Journal of Artificial Intelligence — July 2026.
• The Liberal Order in Complex Societies Marred by Climate Change
  Review of Evolutionary Political Economy — May 2026.
• Beyond Post-Truth: Projecting the Future Trajectory of Climate Misinformation
  PLOS Climate — May 2026.
• The Misinformation Challenge: How Information Freedom Promotes Democratic Discourse
  Journal of Libertarian Studies — January 2026.
• Knowledge Asymmetries and Climate Finance: An Inquiry into Environmental Market Failures and Political Legitimacy
  The Cambridge Journal of Climate Research — December 2025.
• The Prospect of ‘Just Emissions’ as an International Norm of Environmental Governance
  The Cambridge Journal of Climate Research — December 2024.

Other publications

• Digital Resilience in the Age of Synthetic Media
  The Loop: European Consortium for Political Research Blog — February 2026.
• How Social Media and Online Communities Influence Climate Change Beliefs
  The Loop: European Consortium for Political Research Blog — March 2025.
• The Smart Era
  Digital Frontier Magazine — March 2025.
• An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: A Call to Reimagine Religion and Nature
  LSE Religion and Global Society Blog — January 2025.
• Studying Through Adversity: How Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Works at LSE
  Students@LSE Blog — May 2024.

Working papers

• Stochastic Deep Learning: A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Uncertainty in Structured Temporal Data.
• Modeling Infrastructure and Climate from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys.
• Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business.
• International Norms of Environmental Governance: The Transnational Management of Developmental and Ecological Justice.
• The Social Justification of Climate Change Beliefs and Environmental Communication.

Further academic study

• UCL Teaching Associate Programme (TAP) — May 2026.
  Completed UCL’s PGTA teaching training course in preparation for an AFHEA application.
• Oxford University Economics Summer School — September 2025.
  Completed two courses in Machine Learning and Behavioral Macroeconomics.
• LSE Faith Centre and Cambridge University InterFaith Programme — July 2024.
  Summer School on Religion and Climate Futures.
• LSE Faith Centre Beecken Faith and Leadership Programme — January–March 2024.
  Segments on Religion and Climate Change and Conflict Transformations.
• Utrecht University — August 2021.
  Summer School on The Posthuman and New Materialist Philosophy.
• New England Complex Systems Institute — January 2020.
  Winter School in Complex Systems Science.
• London School of Economics and Political Science — June 2018–August 2018.
  Summer School in Advanced Econometrics and Statistics.
• United Nations Institute for Training and Research — January 2018–June 2018.
  International Relations and Global Diplomacy Graduate Diploma.
• University of New Hampshire — May 2017–August 2017.
  UNH Social Innovation Intern.

Conference & seminar presentations

University of Essex

• Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
  ECPR General Conference — September 2026.
• From Doctoral Training to Academic Leadership Invited Panel
  ISA Virtual Conference — July 2026.
• Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
  ISA Virtual Conference — July 2026.
• Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
  SASE General Conference — July 2026.
• Does Climate Misinformation affect ESG Performance
  EPSS Annual Conference — June 2026.
• Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
  Essex Sustainable Transitions Annual Conference — June 2026.
• Neural SDEs for Finance and Asset Pricing
  JARGON (Essex Internal Seminar) — June 2026.
• SCAIRY BioYUFE Adaptation Invited Panel
  BioYUFE Webinar — June 2026.
• Does Climate Misinformation Exacerbate Information Asymmetry?
  JARGON (Essex Internal Seminar) — December 2025.
• Does Climate Misinformation Affect ESG Performance?
  Climate, Finance, and Economic Sustainability Workshop, University of Leicester — December 2025.
• Cutting Edge Artificial Intelligence Research
  HEROES (Essex Internal Seminar) — November 2025.
• Panel Talk on Climate Misinformation
  BioYUFE Meeting (Essex) — September 2025.
• Does Climate Misinformation Affect ESG Performance?
  EBS Research Conference (Essex) — September 2025.
• Are Religious Political Actors Constrained by Political Neutrality?
  ECPR General Conference — August 2025.
• The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Markets and Policy
  ClimateNLP Seminar — August 2025.
• Literature Gaps in Moral Contagion Theory
  Oxford OCPSG Internal Presentation — July 2025.
• Structural Incentives in Complex Societies Marred by Climate Change
  Association of Heterodox Economics Annual Conference — June 2025.
• Climate Discourse and ESG Performance in the Post-Truth Era
  Essex Sustainable Transitions Annual Conference — June 2025.
• The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Climate Policy Uncertainty
  Essex Government Department PEPSI Seminar — March 2025.
• Frontier Methods in Political Methodology
  HEROES (Essex Gov Internal Seminar) — January 2025.
• An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene
  Science and Religion Forum Annual Conference — November 2024.
• International Norms of Environmental Governance
  Essex Government Conflict Seminar — November 2024.

London School of Economics and Political Science

• The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality
  LSE MSc Dissertation Seminar — May 2024.
• Political Liberalism and Moral Pluralism
  Political Philosophy of Environmental Change Classroom Seminar — November 2023.

University of Edinburgh

• Darwin and Natural Theology
  Life and Mind Classroom Seminar — February 2023.

Harvard Extension School

• St. Augustine’s Confessions
  HES Graduate Student Association Conference — December 2021.

University of Connecticut

• American Derivative Securities
  Ph.D. Econometrics III Course Seminar — April 2020.
• Using Machine Learning for Macroeconomic Prediction
  UConn Economics Society — February 2020.
• Stabilizing Monetary Policy In an Uncertain World
  Boston Federal Reserve University Challenge — November 2019.

Reviewing

Reviewer for:

• PLOS Climate.
• Open Economies Review.

Awards

University of Essex

• Mercatus Center Mercatus Fellowship — US$2,500, August 2026.
• Mercatus Center Ronald Coase Fellowship — US$1,750, August 2025.
• ECPR General Conference Grant — £500, August 2025.
• Leverhulme Sustainable Transitions PhD Scholarship — October 2024–October 2027.

London School of Economics and Political Science

• LSE Faith Centre “Religion and Climate Futures” Summer School — £1,500, July 2024.
• LSE CIVICA Warsaw Sport and Culture Festival — £1,000, June 2024.
• Mercatus Center Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship — US$5,000, 2023–2024.

University of Connecticut

• Charles Triano Scholarship, UConn Economics Department — US$1,000, May 2020.
• UConn Economics Department General Scholarship — US$1,000, April 2019.

University of New Hampshire

• Dean’s List — Spring 2016.
• Dean’s List — Fall 2016.

Community involvement

University of Essex

• Student Member — Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
  May 2026–Present.
• Student Member — European Political Science Society (EPSS)
  March 2026–Present.
• Student Member — European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
  October 2024–Present.
• Student Member — American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)
  October 2024–October 2025.
• Student Member — American Political Science Association (APSA)
  October 2024–Present.
• Student Member — International Political Science Association (IPSA)
  October 2024–October 2025.

London School of Economics

• Student Member — The Hume Society
  April 2024–June 2026.
• Student Member — Science and Religion Forum
  April 2024–January 2026.
• Mentee — Career Accelerator Neurodiversity and Disability Mentoring Programme
  May 2024–August 2024.
• Organizing Member — LSE Philosophy Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Group
  September 2023–September 2024.
• Member — LSE Philosophy Society
  September 2023–September 2024.
• Member — LSE Hayek Society
  September 2023–September 2024.
• Member — LSE Effective Altruism (EA) Society
  September 2023–September 2024.

Harvard Extension School / University of Edinburgh

• Member — The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE Society)
  January 2023–Present.
• Member, NYC Chapter — United Nations Association of The United States
  January 2021–January 2025.
• Youth Member / Participant — YOUNGO Youth Constituency to the UNFCCC
  February 2021–January 2022.

University of Connecticut

• Member and Lead Administrator — Omicron Delta Epsilon, UConn Honor Society in Economics
  April 2019–May 2020.
• President — UConn Economics Society
  November 2019–May 2020.
• UConn Fed Challenge Team — September 2019–May 2020.
  Presented original macroeconomic research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
• Social Media Chair — UConn Women and Minorities in Economics Society
  January 2019–November 2019.

University of New Hampshire

• UNH Model United Nations Team — September 2015–May 2017.
  Participant in Model UN ECOSOC negotiations at the New York City Conference in Spring 2016 and Spring 2017.

Skills

• Programming: R, Python, LaTeX.
• Version control: Git and GitHub.
• Other tools: Microsoft Office.