I am a Research Scientist at Stanford University and member of Marshall Burke's Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab, with joint appointments at the Center for Food Security and the Environment and the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. I am currently serving as a principal investigator for two climate change initiatives at the King Center on Global Development. 

My research explores how climate change is altering politics in the Global South, and whether social safety net policies can insulate citizens from the adverse effects of a warming world. I am particularly interested in how the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather is affecting the strength and substance of citizens' accountability demands, and how state-led efforts to address climate-driven welfare shocks shape beliefs about state institutions and regime performance. 

Much of my current work relies on the combination of modern machine learning architectures and satellite imagery to produce high-resolution estimates of wealth and consumption. An application of this work was recently featured as the cover article in Nature. My current data projects aim to make climate products and other microspatial data more accessible to social scientists through a free-to-use cloud computing platform and accompanying R package. 

We are actively recruiting collaborators to use this new microspatial data in other domains, and have developed large databases of geolocated survey responses and high-resolution climate data with which to pair it, unlocking many interesting and unanswered questions at the intersection of climate science and political economy. To learn more, check out the collaborate page.