Research fields: Political Economy, Labor Economics, Data Science, Geoeconomics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Bio:
I am an ATRAE Distinguished Researcher at the Institute of Economic Analysis (CSIC) and Co-director of Graduate Studies at IDEA (International Doctorate in Economic Analysis at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). I am also Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics and a Research Affiliate at CEPR, HCEO, and IZA. Before moving to Barcelona I was Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Cambridge where I designed and founded the MPhil in Economics and Data Science. Before that I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal. For my research I analyze unstructured data using machine learning and AI. I teach courses on the use of AI and data science in Economics at the UAB, CEMFI, and the Central Bank of Colombia.
My fields are Labor Economics and Political Economy. I am co-founder and co-director of conflictforecast.org and EconAI, and have conducted multiple projects with the FCDO, German Foreign Office, OECD, and IMF. I am Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and have published in Economics and Political Science journals, such as American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, Journal of European Economic Association, and Journal of Public Economics. My work has been featured widely across the media including The Guardian, Washington Post, the Economist, the BBC, FAZ, and Der Spiegel. I am listed amongst the top 1% of Economists in terms of research output in the last ten years.