My name is Thomas (he/him) and I am an PhD student in Politics at the University of Oxford. I received my MPhil in Comparative Government (with distinction) from the University of Oxford in 2024. I received a Bachelor of Science in political science and data analytics (summa cum laude) from UC San Diego in 2020.

From 2020 to 2022, I served as a pre-doctoral fellow with J-PAL’s Payments and Governance Research Program. 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.

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.

CV

My CV can be found here.

Tutoring and Consulting

I also offer tutoring and consultancy services. Please see this form for more details and to sign up.