Vita

Academic Positions:

September 2017-present: Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
September 2016-August 2017: Visiting Associate Professor, Tsinghua University.
December 2013-August 2017: Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam.
December 2013-present: Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute.
May 2012-November 2013: Junior Professor, University of Bonn.
July 2011-April 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Heidelberg under the German Universities Excellence Initiative.
June 2010-June 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Tilburg University.

Education:

2006-2010: PhD in economics, Tinbergen Institute/University of Amsterdam. PhD thesis: “Essays on Auctions” (ISBN: 978 90 3610 206 3). Advisor: Prof. Dr. Theo Offerman
2005-2006: MPhil program in microeconomics, Tinbergen Institute.
2001-2005: BSc (cum laude) and MSc in Finance, University of Amsterdam.

Grants and Projects:

- GRF Grant (HKD 598,509) awarded by the HK Research Grants Council for research project “Post Pandemic Social Division and Conflict: Theory and Experiments” (file number 11603823), jointly with Te Bao, 2024-
- GRF Grant (HKD 613,976) awarded by the HK Research Grants Council for research project “Path-Dependent Preferences and Polarized Public Responses in Pandemics” (file number 11503322), jointly with Dr. Xu Han and Dr. Joyce Liu, 2023-
- GRF Grant (HKD 397,544) awarded by the HK Research Grants Council for research project “High-Risk Mechanism Design” (file number 9042842), jointly with Dr. Joyce Liu, 2019-2022.
- Veni Grant (EUR 250,000) awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for research project “High Risk Auctions" (file number 016.145.289), 2013-2016.
- Rubicon Grant (EUR 55,000) awarded by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for research project “Anglo-Dutch Premium Auction” (file number 446-09-027), 2010-2011.

Academic Visit:

- Sept 2016-July 2017. Tsinghua University, China.
- June-Sept, 2008. California Institute of Technology, U.S.A.