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Welcome to my personal website. I am an Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy.

I am primarily interested in the political economy of spatial inequality and, consequently, in how place shapes individual outlooks, behaviours and outcomes.

In 2026 I will start a 5-year project funded by a €2million ERC Consolidator Grant exploring political polarisation along the urban-rural continuum.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from the London School of Economics (LSE) and my past academic appointments include the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Gran Sasso Science Institute. I’m a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, founded to broaden access to Cambridge University and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. I’m also affiliated with Cambridge’s Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, the Lab of Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis, and the University of Turin’s Omero Centre of Urban Research.

My research has been cited by the New York Times, the Guardian/Observer, BBC Radio, the Independent, Le Monde and the Asia Times among others. Outside of academia, I have worked and provided consulting services for international organizations like the European Commission, the OECD and the European Parliament. Additionally, I co-wrote an award-winning documentary film that was shown at MoMA in New York and premiered at IDFA. I was a free-time art photography assistant for many years.