My current research primarily focuses on the effects of armed conflict on educational outcomes and why non-state armed groups perpetrate attacks on education in civil wars. I specialize in computational methods and geospatial analysis, with a regional focus on the developing world, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa.

Themes and topics

• Conflict-related attacks on education
• Children and armed conflict
• Decision-making in insurgency
• Human and socioeconomic consequences of war

Methods

• GIS and spatial data analysis
• Quantitative methods and spatial statistics
• Survey and text data
• Machine learning approaches

Projects

• Conflict-related attacks on education in sub-Saharan Africa and children's lost life opportunities (EdAttack)
  • Research assistant: contributed to machine learning data collection, research communication (articles, conference presentations, public speaking), and writing my MA thesis.
• Peace Science Infrastructure (PSI)
  • Research assistant: contributed to developing PRIO-GRID 3.0 as an R package.

Previous projects

• Elite Political Dynamics in Electoral Autocracies (ELITE)
• Conflict Trends

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Politics, University of Oxford (ongoing)
  • Education under attack: Understanding the dynamics behind conflict-related attacks on education (AoE)
• Master's Degree in Political Science, University of Oslo
  • When Schools Become Targets: Why Some Armed Groups Attack Education
• Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, University of Oslo
  • Effectiveness of aid on educational dropout in post-genocide
    • Published in the International Journal of Educational Development
• Bachelor's Degree in Pedagogy, University of Oslo

Languages English, Norwegian

Technical R, ArcGIS, QGIS, LaTeX, Git, SQL