I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University (NYU) in the United States. At NYU I work within both the Department of Philosophy and the Tandon School of Engineering on my SNSF grant funded project. Specifically, I investigate risk and the representation of uncertainty for practical decision-making. The focus of this work is on decision-making under high and even deep uncertainty, looking at extreme hydroclimatic events, such as flooding, and larger tipping behavior in the climate system.

Prior to my time at NYU, I was a Research Associate at the University of Bern in Switzerland, where I also completed my PhD. At the University I was splitting my time between the Graduate School of Climate Science and the Institute for Philosophy, and was also a member of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR). Here, I worked within the SNSF funded project "The Epistemology of Climate Change". While in Bern, my work focused on the role expert judgment plays in climate science, looking at the impact these judgments have on knowledge production and communication.

Before moving to Switzerland, I attended the London School of Economics (LSE) in the UK. At the LSE I completed an MSc in Philosophy of Science with a thesis titled “A Critical Analysis of the IPCC’s Methodology for Detection and Attribution of Climate Change”. However, I am originally from the United States, where I spent my undergraduate days at Loyola University Chicago, completing three degrees – a BA in Philosophy, a BS in Environmental Science: Conservation and Restoration Ecology, and a BA in Environmental Policy.

In my free time I enjoy exploring all that this wonderful world has to offer, from swimming in the largest of oceans to having a drink with good friends in the smallest of towns, I firmly believe that life is too short to watch it from the sidelines.