About me

I was trained as a political scientist specializing in political behaviour. I received my PhD in 2016 from the Université de Montréal under the supervision of André Blais.

Following my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), the Université de Montréal, and the University of California, Berkeley, where I was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow.

My academic research has been published in 17 peer-reviewed articles as well as in newspapers like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and La Presse.

My transition out of academia began during the Covid-19 pandemic, when I worked on vaccination at the McGill University Health Centre. I managed the computer systems used for vaccination clinics, trained staff, and conducted research to help improve communications about vaccines. The clinics I helped run vaccinated more than 100,000 people.

I left academia in May 2023 and joined Franklyn IP Consulting as Chief Data Scientist. There, I designed and ran dozens of surveys to support intellectual property litigation, helping companies save hundreds of millions of dollars.

In the summer of 2025, I founded Empirical Intelligence with the goal of helping companies and other organizations optimize their products, pricing, and campaigns through rigorous market and public opinion research.

I have advanced expertise in quantitative research and survey methodology, as well as in-depth experience with major survey platforms (Decipher, Qualtrics, and Sawtooth) and statistical analysis software (R, Python, Stata, and SPSS).

I am fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and conversational in Portuguese.