I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. I hold a PhD in Politics from New York University and a MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.

I study how social institutions and networks affect political participation and conflict. My current work focuses on the politics of ethnic and linguistic boundaries in modern states and the dynamics of social influence during and after violence. I also work on the political economy of development.

I am interested in combining econometric tools, data science, archival fieldwork, and experiments for measurement and theory testing.

My research is published or forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science and Comparative Political Studies and has been funded by UNU-WIDER, the Institute for Humane Studies, and other institutions.

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