Bio
I am a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. I joined Stanford after receiving an MSc in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and completing a BA in Sociology, Politics, and Economics at Zeppelin University in Germany.
One line of my work examines how generative AI can contribute to empirical social science. A second line of work studies public attitudes toward economic policy.
Selected Work
- 2026 Americans Favor Predistributive Over Redistributive Economic Policies. With J. Kamphorst and R. Willer. Forthcoming at PNAS.
- 2025 The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations. With M. Howes and A. van Loon. Sociological Methods & Research.
- 2024 Coming into Relations: How Communication Reveals and Persuades Relational Decisions. With D. McFarland, V. Prabhakaran, and D. Jurafsky. Social Networks.
- 2026 Belief in the American Dream Reduces Support for Welfare Programs. With L. Santos and R. Willer. Manuscript available upon request.
- 2026 This Human Study Did Not Involve Human Subjects: Validating LLM Simulations as Behavioral Evidence. With J. Hullman, H. Sun, and A. Shaw. arXiv preprint.
- 2026 Post-training Makes Large Language Models Less Human-like. With M. Binz et al. arXiv preprint.
Teaching
I have taught and assisted courses in economic sociology, regression for discrete outcomes, computational social science, and research design.
Materials
My current CV is available here. Replication materials for my research are available on OSF.