About Me

About

I study how complex social systems behave when people interact at scale.

I’m a network scientist trained as an economist, with experience working across research, teaching, and policy-relevant contexts. My work examines how communication, emotion, and structure interact to produce large-scale patterns, especially during moments of uncertainty, disruption, or collective stress.

Across digital platforms, economic networks, and social systems, I study how discourse evolves over time, how collective emotions unfold, and how systems cross thresholds into fragmentation, coordination, or silence. I focus on system behavior as it emerges from interaction, timing, and feedback rather than from isolated individual actions.

Teaching is central to how I think and work. I care about making complex ideas legible without oversimplifying them, whether in the classroom, in collaborative research, or in public-facing writing. That same commitment shapes my approach to interdisciplinary work and methodological design.

I also write When Systems Speak, where I step back from formal models to explore how complexity shows up in everyday life, often in ways we don’t notice until something breaks.