My research brings together comparative politics, political economy, and behavioral sciences, while being deeply informed by political theory and intellectual history. In my dissertation book project, I plan to examine the comparative behavioral political economy of dissent. More specifically, I am intended to investigate the psychological mechanisms that drive individuals to resist autocrats, illiberal leaders, and democratic backsliding—and how these mechanisms interact with institutions, culture, and historical legacies. Beyond this core agenda, I maintain broader interests in questions in political psychology, behavior, and the political economy of development. I am also engaged with metascientific questions related to research replicability and knowledge cumulation in social sciences.

Methodologically, I primarily employ quantitative and computational approaches, while integrating qualitative insights when appropriate. My work is driven by substantive questions rather than methodological allegiance, but I have particular interests in survey methodology (e.g., preference elicitation on sensitive topics, multimodal data analysis including text, audio, and behavioral traces), and in the sensitivity of small-area estimation techniques to site selection. I also think on broader problems in causal inference and experimental design, including issues related to site selection, factorial and adaptive experiments and other general questions in econometrics, psychometrics, GIS, and machine learning.