CV
RESEARCH INTERESTS
International Macro/Finance, Asset Pricing, Growth and Development.
CURRENT POSITION
2023 - present Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Surrey, Guildford
2019 - present Lecturer in Economics, University of Surrey, Guildford
EDUCATION
2010 – 2015 · EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (EUI), Florence, Italy
· · · · Ph.D. in economics, Dissertation: “Three Essays in Macroeconomics”
· · · · Committee: Arpad Abraham (main advisor), Ramon Marimon (advisor), Rodolfo Manuelli (external) and Mark Aguiar (external).
2007 – 2009 · EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT ST. PETERSBURG (EUSP), St. Petersburg, Russia
· · · · Master degree in economics, GPA 4.7 out of 5.0
· · · · Master thesis: “Economic growth and income inequality with exhaustible natural resources”
2002 – 2009 · ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, St. Petersburg, Russia
· · · · Department of Statistical Physics M.Sc. in physics GPA 4.8 out of 5.0
· · · · Master thesis: “Nonlinear theory of slow relaxation in ionic and nonionic micellar solution”
· · · · Department of Statistical Physics B.Sc. in physics GPA 4.6 out of 5.0
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015- 2019 Foscolo Europe Fellow, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, Rome
2015-2017 Visiting researcher, the BEROC, Minsk Belarus
2014 Research assistant for prof. Arpad Abraham (EUI) on the project “The Dynamic of plant-level productivity in the US”
2013 Intern, economic research and statistics of World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
2012 Visiting PhD researcher, the Central Bank of Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
INVITED SEMINARS
2020 Bank of Ireland
2018-2019 University of Surrey; University of Helsinki; Higher School of Economics; Nazarbayev University, Sabanci University; TU Berlin; Bank of Italy
2017-2016 University of Oxford, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, SSE; Cardiff University.
2015-2014 University of Bonn; BEROC (Minsk); ICEF, Higher School of Economics (Moscow); Bilkent University (Ankara); University of Kent; New Economic School (Moscow); VU University Amsterdam; Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin); University of Konstanz
CONFERENCES
Presenter
2020 Consob-Bocconi Conference, The Econometric Society Virtual World Congress
2019 EEA (Manchester); CFE-CMStatistics
2018 Macro Week in Marrakech; Crypto Valley Conference (Zug); the CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance
2017 Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting (Edinburgh); Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Conference (Faro); CEPR 28th European Summer Symposium in Financial Markets (Gerzensee); Workshop on Economic Growth, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Agents Heterogeneity (St. Petersburg)
2016 Royal Economic Society annual conference (Brighton); International Days of Macroeconomics and Finance (Marrakech)
2015 30th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (Mannheim); Theoretical Research in Development Economics (Brussels); Theories and methods in macroeconomics (Berlin); Warwick Economics PhD Conference; 8th RGS Doctoral Conference in Economics (Essen); 10th RES PhD Meetings (London)
2014 39th Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía-Spanish Economic Association (Palma de Mallorca); Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance; 20th Annual Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (Oslo); Fifth Conference on Recent Developments in Macroeconomics (Mannheim); Central European Program in Economic Theory Workshop (Udine); Belgrade Young Economists Conference; XIX Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics (Vigo)
2012 Annual meeting of Association of Southern European Economic Theorists (Limassol); Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis Workshop
Discussant
2014 Economic Policy after the Financial Crisis Workshop (EUI, Florence)
2013 Macroeconomics and Financial Frictions Workshop (EUI, Florence)
2012 Workshop on Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt (EUI, Florence)
Participant
2010/2011 The Youth International Economic Forum, St. Petersburg Russia
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019/2020 Macroeconomic theory (graduate course, University of Surrey);
Math for PhD (PhD course, University of Surrey)
2018 Macroeconomic Analysis (graduate course, LUISS University, Rome)
2016 International Macro (PhD course, EIEF, Rome)
2014 Teaching assistant for Macroeconomics (graduate course by Prof. F. Taddei, SAIS of Johns Hopkins University, Bologna)
2013 Teaching assistant for Macroeconomics III: Monetary policy (graduate course by Prof. E. Pappa, EUI)
2012 Visiting Lecturer, Economic Integration in Europe (graduate course in Tartu University, Estonia)
2011 Teaching assistant for Background course on Mathematics (graduate course by Prof. A. Villanacci, EUI)
2009 Teaching assistant for stochastic models in financial theory (graduate course by Prof. B.A. Lifshits, EUSP)
REFEREE ACTIVITY
• Journal of Finance, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Review of International Economics, Economic Modelling, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Czech Economic Review
AWARDS, GRANTS, and SCHOLARSHIPS
• The Institute for Humane Studies' Conference Grant 2017
• Royal Economic Society Conference Grant 2016
• Unicredit & Universities Foundation Foscolo Europe Fellowship 2015-2019
• European University Institute, Thesis Completion Grant 2014
• PECO Grant from Italian Ministry of Foreign Affair 2010-2013
• The Academic Fellowship Grant of European University at St.-Petersburg 2007-2009
• Scholarship holder of the “Dynasty” Foundation. 2008-2009
• Award of municipal school contests at physics and chemistry 2000-2002
PC SKILLS
• Python, MATLAB: Dynare, Stata, Maple, Pascal, Fortran, VBA
LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Russian: mother tongue; English: fluent; Italian: conversational; German: basic