I am a social scientist interested in demographic changes, life history patterns, and their implications for kinship networks and social policies. Currently, I am a Research Scientist in the Research Group of Kinship Inequalities and in the Department of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

Before that, I was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, working on the CenSoc database in the group of Joshua Goldstein. 

I completed my Ph.D. in the Tuljapurkar Lab at Stanford University. My research interests lie broadly in analyzing the impacts and trends of demographic transitions, with an emphasis on the role of uncertainty in demographic rates. Specific topics include mortality inequality and its implications for the Social Security system, the variation in fertility patterns and in lifetime reproductive success, and the variability in the life histories of animals and plants and its effect on population resilience. 

Changes in human fertility and mortality affect the dynamics of kinship networks and are another important part of my research. In this work, I seek to shed light on the impact of demographic transition on familial relationships and social structures. 

By developing a deeper understanding of the complex mechanisms underlying demographic transitions, I hope to identify strategies for improving individual and population outcomes in an uncertain world. For humans, these outcomes include the age of claiming a pension, or the fiscal stability of pension systems. For other species, these outcomes include the response of populations to changing climates.