# Stephanie Droop > Leading Causality Consultant ## Pages - [Writing](https://stephaniedroop.com/writing/) - [Contact](https://stephaniedroop.com/contact/) - [Concepts](https://stephaniedroop.com/concepts/) - [Home](https://stephaniedroop.com/): Causal inference researcher and data scientist PhD researcher at Edinburgh. Structural causal models, NLP, and the hard problem of separating cause from correlation. Previously financial due diligence at KPMG. - [About](https://stephaniedroop.com/about/): Stephanie Droop I am a data scientist and researcher specialising in causal inference. I am finishing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where my research focuses on structural causal models of free-text explanations — specifically, how to identify causal structure from natural language when some variables are unobserved. Before the PhD, I spent four years at KPMG in financial due diligence, qualifying as a chartered accountant (ACCA) and working on transactions across the UK and internationally. My doctoral work sits at the intersection of natural language processing and causal reasoning. I build structural causal models (SCMs) under the assumption […] - [Services](https://stephaniedroop.com/services/): I can help you with… Contact me to see how I can help you make sense of the world [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)