Eli is a DPhil candidate in international relations at Nuffield College, Oxford. His research explores the relationship between art and peace in post-conflict societies. His MPhil thesis, supervised by Dr Samuel Ritholtz, uses ethnographic methods to examine the everyday peacebuilding practices of ex-combatant artists in Colombia. His project incorporates ideas from many disciplines, including art theory, literary criticism, and anthropology.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Political Science. My research focuses on education politics and policy, as well as the drivers of intergroup discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and immigrant status. Methodologically, I utilise a range of causal inference techniques to evaluate how major policy reforms influence various individual-level political outcomes, including political participation and democratic attitudes. A majority of my empirical work centres on Malaysia and Singapore.
This one and a half day conference, organized by Prof. Giovanni Capoccia and Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale) brings together scholars from Europe and the US to analyze in comparative and historical perspective the conditions of viability of the strategies that pro-democratic forces can adopt to counter the rise of illiberalism in liberal democracies.
I specialise in computational methods in social science with a particular interest in modelling complex social systems through the lens of political violence and opinion dynamics. Some of my research topics include:
Replication of social experiments with synthetic data from LLMs
Organisational structure and group decision making in insurgency
Complex systems and modelling collective behaviour
