About.

I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy at UCLA. My doctoral research lies in epistemology, social and legal philosophy, and the philosophy of language, primarily at their intersections. I hold an MSc in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Much of my work concerns the more tragic and conflictual domains of human life.

For the academic year 2026–2027, I am an Affiliated Graduate Fellow at the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Projectat the University of Southern California.

Research.

My primary project, Under Pressure: Vulnerability and Resilience in an Adversarial Social World, examines how the mechanisms and dispositions that sustain social, epistemic, and moral life can also render us vulnerable under adversity or in adversarial contexts. Phenomena to which I have applied this lens include what I call “social system hacking”, gaslighting, survivor guilt, and the epistemic intrusiveness of disturbing truths.

Beyond that, I have long been intrigued by the human capacity to communicate through language, so I also work on topics at the intersection of epistemology and natural-language semantics. In the long run, I am keen to examine how language behaves in high-pressure or strategic contexts, treating language as a further domain in which to extend the framework developed in my primary project.

More.

As a philosopher, I am particularly fascinated—and often troubled—by the gray and dark areas of life where existential weight and practical urgency demand answers, but moral and social complexities resist any simple ones.

So I distract myself by writing in the Las Vegas casinos sometimes.