Dr. Oskar Timo Thoms is Research Associate at the University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM) and a member of the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) team. Previously, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at UTM Toronto at Mississauga and worked as research and statistical consultant. In 2019-20 and 2022, he was an instructor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa. During 2018-19, he was the Simons Research Fellow in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University in downtown Vancouver. He completed a Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University (2017), where he studied international relations, comparative politics, and quantitative methods, and earned an M.A. in Sociology (2005) and a B.A. in International Development Studies (2003) at McGill University. Prior to the Ph.D., he was Research Associate at the McGill Research Group in Conflict and Human Rights (2005-06) and Visiting Research Associate at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies (2008-09), and worked as a consultant on research projects supported by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada). His research has focused on human rights and transitional justice, and he has co-authored scholarly articles in Comparative Political studies, Journal of Peace Research, Human Rights Quarterly, Conflict & Health, and International Journal of Transitional Justice. He is also co-author of the final report of the Lancet Commission on Peaceful Societies through Health Equity and Gender Equality. He created the TJET online database (with Geoff Dancy).