Zach Dickson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the COVIDEU project at the LSE Department of Government. His research combines machine learning and causal inference methods to study elites’ behaviour. Before joining LSE as a postdoc, Zach completed his BA in Political Science at Northeastern, an MSc at University of Edinburgh, and he’s hoping to successfully defend his PhD at the University of Glasgow in the spring (2023).