I’m a comparative political economist who studies how states shape long-run economic outcomes through innovation and inequality. While working on human rights issues at Harvard Law School, I became interested in how institutions produce and reproduce structural inequality over long periods of history. That curiosity led me to pursue a Ph.D. in Political Science (Harvard University, 2024), after which I joined Maastricht University as a Postdoctoral Researcher, where I use multi-level data to explore the complex relationship between taxation and innovation in the European Union and continue to develop my book manuscript, The Paradox of Prosperity.

My research combines large-N quantitative analysis with archival research, historical documents and case studies. A recipient of multiple teaching awards, I teach comparative politics, international relations and quantitative methodology, and always enjoy bringing new perspectives into the classroom.