About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) at University College Dublin, where I hold an Ad Astra Fellowship in Environmental Politics. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, School of International Relations, where I worked on the PeaceRep Mediation Event and Negotiators Database (MEND), a project I remain part of as Data Manager. Before that, I was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies, Universität Basel. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a specialization in International Relations. My research interests broadly encompass climate change, conflict, peace, migration, political economy, computational social science methods, and policy.

My work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Peace Research, Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Research Letters, the Review of International Political Economy, Climate Policy, Political Research Quarterly, and more. My book, The Effects of Climate Change We Don’t Count: Migration, Cities, and Hidden Instability, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. I also write for policy audiences, with contributions to PeaceRep, the IOM UN Migration Blog Series, and the Earth Refuge Legal Database.

My research has been supported by the Ad Astra Fellow Research Award at University College Dublin, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the UCD Earth Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund. I am also a recipient of the APSA First-generation Scholar Award.

At UCD I lead CADRE, an interdisciplinary working group on measuring climate displacement, and I founded the WICIP Network for women working in comparative and international politics.

You can also find me on the Centre for Global Law and Governance, PeaceRep, and Global PeaceHub team pages.

Through volunteer work with RefugeeOne and Project Elea, I have tutored refugees of many ages and countries of origin. In my free time, I enjoy meditation, yoga, reading, playing video games, and playing with data!