About

I received a Ph.D. in Global Environmental Politics from Yale University in 2014, with concentrations in global environmental politics, political economy, and public policy. I conducted my Ph.D. research under the expert guidance of Prof. Benjamin Cashore. My dissertation was awarded the 2015 American Political Science Association's Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics.

I also hold Master's degrees in Global Environmental Politics (2011) from Yale, and in Political Science (2002), Economic Policy (2003), and Conflict and Peace Studies (2005) from the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Between 2003 and 2006, I worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Institute for International and European Policy of the Political Science Department at the University of Leuven. From 2006 to 2008, I was a research fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at the University of Leuven. In Leuven, I had the privilege of working with Prof. Hans Bruyninckx (now Executive Director of the European Environment Agency) and Prof. Luc Reychler. I was a visiting researcher at Yale University in the fall of 2007 and at the University of California, Berkeley in the spring of 2008. From 2009 to 2014, I coordinated the research projects of the Program on Private Authority and Environmental Governance at the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative at the Yale School of the Environment.

In 2014, I started working at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Scarborough, where I am now an Associate Professor with tenure. You can find my departmental websites here and here.