Welcome! I am a Research Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and international Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and a sixth-year PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During the 2023-2024 academic year, I was a Hans J. Morgenthau pre-doctorate fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. I am broadly interested in the role of nuclear weapons, emerging technologies and technological competition, and coercion in international politics. My dissertation project explores how states signal information about advanced military technologies in the context of peacetime security competition, identifying distinctive strategies of technology revelation and proposing a theory that explains the choice of one revelation strategy over another. My dissertation research has received funding awards from the United States Institute of Peace, Smith Richardson Foundation, the Schmidt Futures Foundation, and MIT’s Center for International Studies.

I am passionate about learning from and contributing to policy analysis through my research. Since 2022, I have worked as a Summer Associate and adjunct policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, evaluating various aspects of great power competition, deterrence, and strategic stability. Prior to my work at RAND, I worked as a graduate student intern at Sandia National Labs. Before beginning my doctoral work at MIT, I worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where I supported research on nuclear weapons and arms control issues. I hold an MPhil in International Relations with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BA in Political Science with Honors from Colorado College.