I am an Associate Professor in Data Science & Public Policy in the Department of Political Science at UCL. I am also an affiliated faculty member with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, and the co-program director of the MSc Data Science and Public Policy, a program jointly run by the Department of Economics and the Department of Political Science at UCL.

I study how demographic change shapes, and is shaped by, politics in advanced democracies. I am particularly interested in how policies regulating migration affect migrants, voters, and politicians. Using advanced quantitative methods and administrative datasets, my research answers fundamental questions about the prospects of building inclusive and diverse democracies and provides actionable evidence for policy.

I frequently collaborate with government agencies and non-profit organizations in my policy-oriented research. Since 2025, I have been a member of the National Statistician’s Advisory Panel on Migration Statistics in the United Kingdom.

My research has been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Political Analysis, as well as Science Advances, Nature Human Behaviour, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. I also develop and maintain software packages for applied research in the social sciences. In 2024, I started paper-picnic.com-an announcement service for the latest published research in political science and adjacent fields.

Before joining UCL in 2022, I was an Assistant Professor at The Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University, as well as a postdoctoral fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab, ETH Zurich. I defended my dissertation in 2016 in the Department of Political Science at the University of Mannheim.