Ted Chen is an assistant professor at George Mason University studying climate change politics and network methods for social scientific research. His research focuses on the social and political consequences of climate change and efforts to stem these often unequal outcomes. He is particularly interested in the heterogeneity in how individuals adapt to climate change exposure, including through political participation and migration, and the role of activism and science communication in preferences toward climate policies. Ted also has a methodological focus in developing network approaches for studying complexity in political phenomena, with emphasis on multilayer network representations of social and political systems. These approaches encompass the complexities of coupled socioecological systems and improve our ability to address the interdependencies of policy problems associated with climate change.