I am a political scientist and political economist studying how governments produce, select, and use expert knowledge. My research focuses on advisory commissions, public inquiries, crisis decision-making, and the political economy of expertise. My work has appeared in Policy & Politics, Public Choice, BMJ Public Health, Social Choice and Welfare, Scandinavian Political Studies, and other journals.

My coauthored article on scientific advisory committees during the COVID-19 pandemic received the 2025 Duncan Black Prize from the Public Choice Society. In 2025, I was commissioned by the Scottish Parliament to produce a comparative report on public inquiries in Sweden and Norway.

I also use formal theory and experiments to study ranked-choice voting, campaign finance, candidate entry, bundled elections, and collective choice. Across these projects, I combine game theory, laboratory and survey experiments, statistical analysis, and comparative case studies.

I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Economics from the University of Bergen.