I am a DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. My doctoral research examines how culture shapes individuals' political preferences and behavior. Specifically, I study whether moral values — which exhibit strong heterogeneities across cultures — causally influence preferences for political candidates and policies, using survey experimental methods grounded in Moral Foundations Theory. My DPhil is generously funded by a Oxford-Radcliffe Scholarship at University College, Oxford.
Alongside my dissertation, I work on a broader research program studying religious identity expression and polarization in India, drawing on voter records covering over 505 million individuals. This work combines large-scale data processing, machine learning methods for name-based religious inference, and causal inference techniques to examine how economic shocks, segregation, and social dynamics drive cultural change over time.
Before starting the DPhil, I was a Predoctoral Fellow at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, working with Professors Saad Gulzar and Tanushree Goyal. I hold an MSc in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University and a BSc in Economics from Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. I also have professional experience in economic consulting at RBB Economics.
