My research centers on the economics of energy markets, with a focus on the areas of competition and design of electricity markets, energy system interdependencies, geopolitics and energy security, and state policy interactions with regional electricity markets. Recent work has used tools from operations research, economics and statistics to study electricity market structures for wind energy integration and resource adequacy, cross-product manipulation in electricity markets, natural gas market design to enhance grid reliability, the weaponization of electricity trade, and emission leakage in the Western United States.
Before joining Penn State, I was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard University from 2012 to 2014. I earned a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude) from LUISS University, a M.A. in Energy Economics from the Scuola Mattei, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.