In my current role at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, I provide leadership and direction to a group of colleagues specialised in the quantitative methodology POLIS Quantitative Cluster. As of now, the Quantitative Cluster has received funding from the School and the Faculty, and runs bi-weekly empirical analysis retreats and workshops with external speakers.

• I am also the Editor (Primus inter pares) of Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• I care deeply for equality, diversify and inclusion in social sciences and in conflict and peace science I coordinate a social media campaign to improve diversity in our authorship.

Academic roles and association 

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

Prizes and Grants

• 2024 Research England policy support at the University of Leeds (£ 67,000.00)
• 2022-23. SIR fund ‘impact trip to Thailand’ (£ 2,157.36)
• 2022-23. SIR fund ‘non-violence and conflict transformation’ (£ 5,000)
• 2023. Institute for Humane Studies ‘‘Rebel Tactics, Local Public Support Impact Trip’ (£ 2,000.00)
• 2021-22. Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award ‘Rebel Tactics, Local Public Support and the Upcoming Phase of the Peace Talks in Southern Thailand’ (£ 40,850.00)
• 2019. Global Challenges at Kent. ‘The Pattani civil resistance movement in Sothern Thailand: Trends and Determinants of Nonviolent Civil Resistance in the midst of Civil war’ (£ 9,066.63)
• 2019. Royal Economic Society. Political Economy & Political Science (PEPS) Symposium (£ 6,500.00)
• 2019. Institute for Research in Market Imperfections and Public Policy (MiPP). Political Economy & Political Science (PEPS) Symposium (£ 7.600.00)
• 2019. Global Lives Research Center Development Grant Rebel groups’ inclusion in peace processes and negotiated settlements. Brunel University London’ (£ 2,500.00)
• 2018. Research Development Fund for the project ‘Deprivation, Welfare, and Extremism in the UK: a Spatial Big Data Study. Brunel University London’ (£ 3,000.00)
• 2018. Cedric Smith Prize 2018, Conflict Research Society. (£1,800.00)
• 2017. Economic and Social Research Council, Oversea Institutional Visit Competition (£ 3,965.00)
• 2016. Economic and Social Research Council, ‘Multidisciplinary Funding Competition, for workshop on “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Conflict”, University of Essex (with Baris Ari, Tobias Böhmelt, and Kristian Skrede Gleditsch) (£ 7,975.00)
• 2016. International Study Association Travel Grant, to attend the meetings in Atlanta and Baltimore, USA (£ 718.00)
• 2015. Economic and Social Research Council, ‘Multidisciplinary Funding Competition’ funding for ‘Uppsala-Essex PhD Conflict Workshop’ (£ 2,430.00)
• 2014. Economic and Social Research Council, PhD full scholarship for “The Choice of Terrorism in Conflict and the Outcomes of Mixed Methods of Dissent” (£ 79,811,00)