Welcome to my website!

I am a computational political scientist who works on civil unrest and migration, particularly on African and European cases these days. I am curently an Assistant Professor at the Faculté de Gouvernance, Science Économique, et Sociale at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (Rabat, Morocco).

My scientific work includes award winning pieces published with journals such as Politics and Religion, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Computational Social Science, the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Political Studies Review, and Sociological Methods & Research. Check this page for my publications and their PDFs

My ongoing work typically focuses on the tit for that between government and society. For instance, deadly repression and its impact on future protests, subsidy reforms and whether they cause protests in the MENA, constituent protest against a policy being debated in parliament and how it affects their elected representative behavior in parliamentary debates.

I am currently taking my interest in the tit for tat between states and individuals to a deeper theoretical level by developing new measures of cyclicality for the kind of data we often have in politics–sparse, heterogenous, with irregular but meaningful patterns like cycles, and with contagion across events like protests, wars, coups, etc. Colleagues and I are developing a new tool for measuring such cycles by looking at protest cycles in a complete daily panel of African protests at the district level, from 1997 to 2024, and the impact of cycle positionality on the behavior of individuals in relation to the state. This kind of work connects with Historical Political Economy, Quantitative History, and some of the work done by some Complexity Studies scholars today.

From January 2023 to December 2025, I was co-PI on a Horizon Europe consortium (DYNAMIG) awarded 3,000,000+ Euros for research on migration, along with seven other universities and institutes across Europe and Africa. Our project is described here. I am also a co-PI on a project to collect data on subsidy reforms and civil unrest in the MENA region from the 1970s to today–funded by UKRI through MENASP. Previously, I was a Research Fellow at the World Bank’s Twitter MENA Lab, and a Young Fellow in the Forced Displacement program of the World Bank/UNHCR. I got my PhD from the University of Toronto .

My academic resume is available here.

Nota bene: First generation students and underrepresented minorities applying to political science PhD programs, the academic job market, or interested in research/work with IGOs (World Bank, UN, etc.) or the data science industry are especially welcome to reach out to me for advice and comments!