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JULY 2025: I was awarded the ERC Proof-of-Concept (POC) grant 2025 for our project "Monitoring War Destruction" (MonWaDes). BSE press note.

JULY 2025: The Pick of the Crop forthcoming at Journal of the European Economic Association

MAY 2025: Check out the amazing program of the BSE Summer Forum 2025 workshops on Migration (JUN 5 & 6) and Development (JUN 18 &19).

JAN 2025: I am looking for 2 Predoc RA's funded through the ERC RUSTDEC project - 1 Data Collection Specialist (deadline: FEB 2) & 1 Analysis Specialist (deadline: FEB 9). Come work with me!

JAN 2025: The calls for the BSE Summer Forum 2025 workshops on Development (JUN 18 &19) and Migration (JUN 5 & 6) are out (deadline: FEB 28). Send us your best work and join us in Barcelona!

OCT 2024: New VoxEU column on Foreign aid and the ‘root causes’ of migration and a recent mention at VoxDev.

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JUNE 2024: Forecasting Bilateral Asylum Seeker Flows with High-dimensional Data and Machine Learning Techniques conditionally accepted at Journal of Economic Geography.

JUNE 2024: BSE Focus article and video interview about my ERC project "Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries" (RUSTDEC)

MAY 2024: I have been invited as a Member of the Research Committee on Development Economics of the German Economic Association (VfS).

MAY 2024: I have been appointed Associate Research Professor by the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).

APR 2024: I have been invited as Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

FEB 2024: we received the 2023 Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research – BBVA Foundation Award in the category  "Best contribution in Statistics and Operations Research applied to Data Science and Big Data" for our paper on war destruction detection. Bonus: video interview of me trying to explain it in Spanish :)