I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business where I work with the Decision Insights for Business & Society group and the Centre for Climate and Business Solutions. I received on PhD in Psychology and Social Policy from Princeton University where I was advised by Professor Elke Weber. 

My research investigates the complex relationships and feedback between individual, collective, and institutional levels in societal transitions, with a particular focus on the energy transition, climate policy, and democratic stability. My work sits at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision-making, environmental policy, and organizational behavior. I employ a complimentary mix of methods, including experiments in the lab and in the field, cognitive process tracing, big data text analysis and large language models, analysis of behavior in focus groups and workshops, and meta-analysis.

I examine how and under what circumstances decisions and policies at one level influence decisions and behavior at others. I examine three interconnected dynamics: (1) the role of social norms in shaping what information stakeholders attend to when evaluating climate policy; (2) the influence of media exposure on perceptions of democratic norms and the buffering role of recognition; and (3) the relationship between trust in governments and institutions and public acceptance and perceived risks of net zero technologies and infrastructure. This multi-level approach reveals the ways in which attention, memory content, and recognition in complex information environments shape people's understanding of the world around them and, subsequently, their engagement with critical societal challenges. 

I am a Beijer Young Scholar at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics within the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the 2024 Maeder Graduate Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and a contributing author on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report. I received my B.A. from Dartmouth College in 2016, double majoring in Quantitative Social Science and Environmental Studies. I have also worked as a business consultant in the private sector and a freelance data scientist. Follow my work on Google Scholar.