Biography
Timothy (Tim) Fraser is a postdoctoral associate with the Systems Engineering Program at Cornell University. He is a computational social scientist, studying how social networks help communities adapt to climate change and crisis.
He has authored 35 peer-reviewed studies and five chapters on urban resilience, disasters, energy, health, and the pandemic in the US and Japan. His recent has been funded by multiple external grants from Fulbright & the Natural Hazards Center, as well as internal grants from Northeastern University.
Prior to Cornell, he taught as an instructor and earned his Ph.D. in political science from Northeastern University from 2017 to 2022. In 2016, he was a Fulbright Fellow at Kyushu University, Japan.
Tim teaches statistics and research methods, using examples from environmental policy, and enjoys leading research with undergraduates and master’s students. He also runs tutorials on data science in R.
Education
Ph.D. (Political Science), Northeastern University, 2022
M.A. (Political Science), Northeastern University, 2019
B.A. (International & Global Studies), Middlebury College, 2016