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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Economy and Society Initiative at UC Berkeley, working in the Climate and Green Industrial Strategy team. I received my PhD in political science from Yale University in 2026. My research interests lie in the comparative and international political economy of climate change. Two overarching questions guide my research: First, how does climate change and policy reshape democratic politics? And, second, how do states and business bargain over the politics of economic transformation? In my dissertation, I studied how production site agglomeration shapes the politics and policy of industrial decarbonization in terms of firm lobbying, firm collaboration on infrastructure, and the local electoral consequences of green investment. A core insight from this research is that climate politics, especially industrial decarbonization, is structured by geography: firms operating in dense areas of industrial production behave differently from their more isolated peers. Individuals in the industrial heartland, moreover, react in a different fashion to state-led green investment compared to elsewhere, rewarding incumbents. Methodologically, I combine causal inference, text analysis, survey experiments, and fieldwork to assess these questions. My research has been supported by the MacMillan Center and Institute for Policy and Social Studies at Yale as well as the Baden-Würrtemberg Stiftung, which funded a year-long research stay at the University of Konstanz. My work has been published or is accepted at Government and Opposition and World Politics.

Alongside my research, I was a teaching assistant several times at Yale and was a high school English second language teacher for two years prior to graduate school. During the Fall 2025 semester, I was a visiting instructor of Government at Wesleyan University, offering a course on International Political Economy. Prior to graduate study, I received my B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Afterwards, I worked for several years in Madrid, Spain. Outside my academic interests, I enjoy hiking, cooking, reading and play water polo competitively.

I am on the 2026-2027 academic job market.

You can view my CV here and see my Research page for more information about my work.