About Me

I am a PhD candidate in demography at the Université de Montréal, working with Professor Nadine Ouellette on questions surrounding mortality and longevity. My research focuses on the evolution of the modal age at death, the drivers of mortality heterogeneity within populations, and the use of alternative data sources, in particular digital traces such as online obituaries.

Methodologically, I work at the intersection of formal demography, statistical modelling and machine learning. I am especially interested in extracting and structuring information from unstructured and semi structured texts, and in building tools that make these data usable for demographic research and public health monitoring.

I have worked as an analyst at Statistics Canada (Demography Centre), at Indigenous Services Canada (Demand Forecasting Unit) and at the Italian Consulate in Montreal. I have also completed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique in Montreal, Canada.

Beyond academic research, I enjoy public engagement around issues of aging, mortality and social inequalities, and I sometimes contribute to media pieces and opinion columns on these topics. In my free time, I like making and sharing data visualizations and small reproducible projects.

Most of the code for my projects is available on GitHub, and you can find a selection of my work under the Portfolio tab.