Welcome to my personal web page! My research and professional interests focus on the interactions between transportation and the social and economic processes in households and urban systems, with an emphasis on applied research relevant for the transportation sector. Past work explored topics of equity, environmental justice, sustainability, social indicators, and economic resiliency.

From 2017 until 2023, I worked at the Transportation Research Board where I managed a portfolio of projects in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. NCHRP supports applied research in transportation, focusing on research needs of state transportation agencies. Read more about NCHRP HERE.

Prior to joining NCHRP, I was a research associate at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University. I hold a doctorate in socio-economics from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien/Vienna University of Economics and Business (Austria), a Masters in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and a BA in Geography from the University of Kentucky.  I’m also a proud alum of the Architectural Technology program at the Bluegrass Community and Technical College (Kentucky).