About Me

My name is Thomas (he/him) and I am an PhD student in Politics at the University of Oxford.

In 2024, I received my MPhil in Comparative Government from the University of Oxford. My thesis was titled “Conceptualising Non-State Security”.

From 2020 to 2022, I served as a pre-doctoral fellow with J-PAL’s Payments and Governance Research Program. I received a Bachelor of Science in political science and data analytics from UC San Diego in 2020.

I have also served as a research assistant for the Center for the Study of African Political Economy and as a lab assistant for the Center for Peace and Security Studies.

My CV can be found here.

I am broadly interested in three strands of political science:

• Non-state (and private) actors and the provision of security.

• State capacity and state-building.

• Meta-science and replication.