I am a UKRI Metascience AI Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. I am also a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford. My research bridges AI and the social sciences, harnessing computational methods and large-scale data to illuminate patterns within complex societal and natural systems. My current work explores the transformative impact of AI on society and human behaviour. I have been awarded academic funding from UKRI and the John Fell Fund.
Prior to my current role, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the same department, working in parallel on the Wellcome Trust–funded FORESFA project on global substandard and falsified medicines and the European Research Council–funded CrimGov project on global organised crime and governance. My research has appeared in leading interdisciplinary journals, including Science, Nature Cities, Nature Communications (in press), PNAS, and PNAS Nexus.
I hold a PhD in Engineering Mathematics from the University of Bristol, completed under the supervision of Professors Thilo Gross, Martin Homer, and Nikolai Bode. My doctoral research employed a combination of top-down (model-driven) and bottom-up (data-driven) approaches, drawing on machine learning, agent-based modelling, and network science to investigate complex systems.
Beyond my research, I have taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology, mathematics, and computer science at Oxford and Bristol. I supervise MSc and MPhil students in the Department of Sociology and serve as a college advisor at Oxford. I sit on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy and review for journals such as Nature, Theory and Society, Scientific Reports, and Population Studies, as well as funding bodies including UKRI, the Software Sustainability Institute, and the Oxford Social Sciences Engagement Fellowship.
UKRI Early Career Fellow
Department of Sociology
University of Oxford
Latest updates and announcements
Organized the "Facing AI: Research Opportunities and Challenges in Today's Social Sciences" workshop at the University of Oxford.
Our work on falsified medicines and public health was published in Science.
Presented research at the 2025 International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2025, Maastricht).
Presented at the Data on Crime and Networks small conference at the University of Manchester.
Presented at the Computational Demography Working Group Seminar at the University of Washington.
Integrating computational methods with social science theories to address pressing questions in AI, complex systems, public policy, and beyond.
Examining the societal implications of AI systems, including implication, regulation, ethics, and institutional design. Exploring how policy can effectively guide AI development for social good.
Applying machine learning, network analysis, and large-scale data processing to analyze social phenomena, bridging computational methods and social theories.
Investigating emergent patterns of social and natural systems through mathematical modeling. Studying how micro-level interactions generate macro-level patterns.
Analyzing relational structures and their influence on information diffusion, behavior, and outcomes.
Developing micro-level models to simulate social processes and strategic interactions to understand macro-level phenomena.
Applying computational methods to challenges such as disease spread modeling, intervention evaluation, and health policy analysis.
Courses taught and students supervised at Oxford and Bristol.
Community engagement and professional activities.
Serving on Departmental Research Committee at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford.
UKRI, Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Maintenance Fund, Oxford Social Sciences Engagement Fellowship.
Nature, Theory and Society, Scientific Reports, Population Studies, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, ACL, etc.
Facing AI: Research Opportunities and Challenges in Today's Social Sciences (Oxford, 2025), International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications (committee member).
Mentoring MSc and MPhil students in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford.
A bit of a shutterbug — here are some moments I've captured along the way.








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