Welcome!

I am an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Before joining Georgetown, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, where I am still a faculty affiliated with the iLCSS. After completing my PhD, I had experience in the industry as a Misinformation Researcher at @Twitter.

My scholarship lies at the intersection between social media usage, online misinformation, and political behavior. My research spans topics such as online content activation and propagation, measuring the causal effects of social media usage on exposure to misinformation and political behavior, and testing interventions to counter beliefs for misinformation. I primarily pursue a comparative approach to these issues, paying particular attention to Global South countries and using multi-country large-scale designs to study the intersection of social media and politics. Methodologically, I am interested in survey research in the digital space, large-scale digital experimentation, and the use of large language models in applied social science research.

My research is interdisciplinary and has appeared in general science outlets (Accepted in Principle at Nature, Nature Scientific Reports, and PLOS ONE), leading journals across Political Science (The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, among others), and Communications (Journal of Communication (x2), New Media & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, among others). My research has received grants from the National Science Foundation (1.2M), Templeton Foundation, Project Liberty Institute, and EGAP, among others, and significant awards, such as the 2025 MPSA Best Paper in Political Behavior, 2024 APSA Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, the 2024 APSA Best Paper Award in Internet, Technology, and Politics, the 2024 Best Overall Paper and the 2024 and 2022 Best Political Behavior Paper at the Brazilian Political Science Annual Meeting