About me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington, originally from Barcelona, Spain. I am a comparative political economist and political methodologist, and I expect to complete my Ph.D. in June 2027.

Substantively, I study the political economy of inequality and redistribution. Across countries, I ask how labor market institutions, welfare states, and technological change shape growth and inequality and distribute economic risk across the workforce. Within countries, I use survey data to ask how insecurity and inequality shape citizens’ preferences over redistribution and their support for political parties, and how institutions moderate those preferences. Methodologically, I develop statistical methods and research designs for settings in which observed data imperfectly measure theoretical quantities or provide no obvious counterfactual comparison, including measurement error in grouped survey variables, interrupted time series designs without a control group, and Bayesian multilevel models for spatial and panel data.

My dissertation, Essays in Methodology and Political Economy, develops this program in three essays, described on the Research page: a comparative study of union solidarity and support for redistribution in Europe, a methodological study of measurement error in grouped data, and a study of how political naming spread and was suppressed under repression in Turkey.

I teach quantitative methods and comparative political economy. Since 2021 I have taught as a teaching assistant in twenty courses at the University of Washington and the ICPSR Summer Program, and I work as a statistical consultant at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. In Winter 2027 I will teach the introductory graduate methods course in political science, POL S/CSSS 501, and in Spring 2027 a graduate seminar on AI-assisted workflows for scientific research. My teaching materials and CV are available on this site.