About

Hi! I’m a PhD student at the Centre for International Security at the Hertie School in Berlin. My dissertation research focuses on crisis stability and escalation risks between nuclear-armed states, and I am interested in issues of nuclear arms control, disarmament and strategic stability more broadly.

I received my Master’s degree at Johns Hopkins SAIS in Bologna in 2024, where my thesis on the use of nuclear weapons for coercive diplomacy in the context of conventional conflicts won the 2024 C. Grove Haines Prize for best thesis.

I’m also a very occasional freelance journalist. I served as editor-in-chief of the 68th volume of Trinity News after finishing my undergraduate degree in computer & electronic engineering at Trinity College Dublin.

My writing

You can find my writing in:

• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Silicon Republic
• The Journal
• The Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development blog:
  • “Ireland, European Security, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”
  • “Acts of Disunion: Scotland and the Unresolvable Question”
• The European Peacebuilding Liaison Office blog
• The SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs
• Trinity News

Newsletter

I (inconsistently) publish a newsletter called “Irreversibly Dismantled”. It’s an unfocused mixture of creative non-fiction, and I use the ephemeral nature of the format to write more personally than I usually do here. You can sign up at this link.

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this website, or by me in any other public venue, are purely my own and do not represent those of any past or present employer, or any other institution with which I am or have been affiliated unless explicitly stated.