I am a computational social scientist and population geographer. My work examines how places shape human behavior, economic inequality, and population health. I hold appointments as Associate Professor at Arizona State University and as a CASBS Fellow at Stanford University.
Today, the United States and Europe face their most pressing population challenges in living memory. Inequality within and across our cities have reached all-time highs, opportunities for our children to climb the economic ladder have sunk to all-time lows, and we will face major immigration and demographic pressures for decades to come.
I study the long-term causes and consequences of these conditions in an effort to better understand how we got here and where we are going. My main expertise is in constructing large complex datasets, which I build and analyze through statistical, inferential, and learning frameworks. My work is generally concerned with the spatial dimensions of populations and how they change over time.
My findings have been published in leading academic outlets including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Data, Demography, Science Advances, Journal of Economic History and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. My work has been featured by Ireland's national broadcaster RTE, Business Insider, the LSE's APP blog, and on prime-time radio.
