Timothy Fraser, PhD

Timothy Fraser (Tim) is a computational social scientist, studying how social networks help communities adapt to climate change and crisis. Starting Fall 2022, he works as an Ezra Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Systems Engineering at Cornell University.

He has authored 32 peer-reviewed studies and 5 chapters on urban resilience, disasters, energy, health, and the pandemic in the US and Japan. His recent has been funded by multiple external grants from Fulbright & the Natural Hazards Center, as well as internal grants at Northeastern.

Prior to Cornell, he taught as an Instructor and earned his PhD in Political Science from Northeastern University, from 2017 to 2022. In 2016, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Kyushu University, Japan in 2016.

Tim teaches research methods and quantitative techniques, using examples from environmental politics, and enjoys leading research with undergraduates and masters students. He also runs tutorials on data science in R.