I am a sociologist, and my work concerns the political consequences of social stratification. I completed my DPhil at the University of Oxford in September 2026, supervised by Geoffrey Evans and Nan Dirk de Graaf. Before Oxford I studied in Trento and Bologna.

Socio-economic inequality structures political preferences and participation, and those dispositions are handed from parents to children over the life course. How far that happens depends on the political and economic conditions under which a generation comes of age, which is why the question is best asked across countries and across time. I combine classical sociological theory with longitudinal, multilevel and statistical learning methods.

My thesis asked why class inequality in British turnout has proved so durable, and traced much of the gap to stratified experiences of political socialisation. What motivates the work more broadly is the persistence of inequality in contemporary democracies, and the question of why democratic institutions struggle to stay inclusive under it. There is more on the research page.