Hello! 

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Political Science at UC Santa Barbara, where I also serve as a teaching assistant. My research centers on the political economy of climate innovation, with a focus on how corporate actors, public investment, and state institutions shape the development and deployment of clean technologies, specifically, carbon capture. 

I am currently collecting data on opposition to CCS projects to understand how individuals, communities, and organizations decide whether to support or oppose these technologies. If you are aware of any cases of opposition, local campaigns, lawsuits, or community concerns, please reach out.

Methodologically, I use a mixed approach that includes causal inference, process tracing, and semi-structured interviews to understand the political and economic calculus behind why people and organizations support or oppose CCS.

I also use natural language processing (NLP) methods to analyze textual data to understand climate-related corporate communication. These fine-tuned models are available on Hugging Face with open-source code. My recent presentations and active projects are available in my CV here.