Since 2019 Assistant Professor, SIAW & SEPS, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
Since 2021 Member, Standing Field Committee Public Economics, German Economic Association
(Finanzwissenschaftlicher Ausschuss, Verein für Socialpolitik)
Since 2017 CESifo Research Affiliate
2018 - 2019 Visiting Scholar, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA
2016 - 2019 Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Germany
2015 - 2016 Research Associate, Chair of Applied Microeconomics, University of Siegen, Germany
2012 - 2015 Research Associate, Chair of Public Economics, University of Gottingen, Germany
2012 - 2016 PhD in Economics, University of Gottingen, Germany (Summa Cum Laude)
Thesis: The Political Economy of Electoral Reforms: A Tale of Two Countries
Supervisor: Thushyanthan Baskaran
2010 - 2012 Double Degree Master Program in Economics
MSc Economics, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
MSc Financial Economics, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
Thesis: Economic Rents, Institutions and Growth - International Aid and Natural Resources
Supervisors: Giuseppe Ragusa and Pedro Vicente
2007 - 2010 BSc Economics, NOVA School of Business and Economics, Lisbon, Portugal
Visiting Student, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Since 2024 Associate Editor, Economics of Governance
2021 - 2024 European Public Choice Society (EPCS), Elected member of the Executive Board
2020 - 2022 School representative of the non-tenured faculty (University of St.Gallen)
FCT, Project "Losers of Representation", EUR 250k, 2022 (co-applicant, PI Jorge Fernandes).
DFG, International Scientific Events, EUR 14k, 2021 (co-applicant, with Zohal Hessami).
Wicksell Prize of the European Public Choice Society for the paper “Candid Lame Ducks”, 2016.
Academic journals: American Journal of Political Science; British Journal of Political Science; Economic Journal; Economia Politica; Economica; Economics of Governance; Electoral Studies; European Journal of Political Economy; European Political Science Review; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of Politics; Journal of Public Economics; Local Government Studies; Party Politics; Public Choice; Public Finance Analysis (FA); Regional Science and Urban Economics; Review of International Organizations; Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.
Annual conferences: SMYE, EAYE, EPCS.
Funding agencies: ERC, FFMS.
2026 Workshop on the Political Economics of Representation in Democracies (Vitznau, CH) [invited] *scheduled*
University of Salzburg (Salzburg, AT) [invited] *scheduled*
2025 Annual Meeting Standing Field Committee Public Economics, VfS (Jena, DE)
European Public Choice Society (Riga, LV)
ifo Institute lunchtime seminar (Munich, DE) [invited]
2024 ZEW-ifo Young Scholar Political Economy Workshop (Fürth, DE) [invited],
University of Bolzano (Bolzano, IT) [invited],
Workshop on the Political Economics of Democratic Freedom (Basel, CH) [invited].
2023 European Health Economics Association (webinar) [invited discussant],
University of Basel (Basel, CH) [invited],
European Public Choice Society (Hannover, DE).
2022 University of Fribourg (Fribourg, CH) [invited].
2021 Swiss Workshop Political Economy and Development (Weggis, CH) [invited].
2020 HSG-KN Applied Micro Workshop (webinar),
Virtual Political Economy Workshop (webinar) [invited discussant]
European Public Choice Society (Lucerne, CH) *cancelled*
University of Lucerne (Lucerne, CH) [invited],
University of Mannheim (Mannheim, DE) [invited],
European Commission JRC (Ispra, IT) [invited].
2019 SSE-BICEPS (Riga, LV) [invited],
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, US).
2018 ifo Institute lunchtime seminar (Munich, DE) [invited],
International Institute of Public Finance (Tampere, FI),
Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, (Aix-en-Provence, FR),
NOVA Sbe (Lisbon, PT) [invited],
Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (St. Gallen, CH),
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Palma de Mallorca, ES),
ZEW Public Finance Conference (Mannheim, DE),
Regional Economics and Local Political Economy Workshop (Siegen, DE).
2017 National Tax Association (Philadelphia, US),
ZEW (Mannheim, DE) [invited],
International Institute of Public Finance (Tokyo, JP),
Workshop on Political Economy and Fiscal Federalism (Barcelona, ES),
ZEW Public Finance Conference (Mannheim, DE),
CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics (Munich, DE),
European Public Choice Society (Budapest, HU).
2016 Workshop Beliefs and Decisions (Lisbon, PT),
European Economic Association (Geneva, CH),
International Institute of Public Finance (Lake Tahoe, US),
Silvaplana Workshop Political Economy (Pontresina, CH),
European Public Choice Society (Freiburg, DE),
Lisbon Meeting on Institutions and Political Economy (Lisbon, PT).
2015 Workshop on Political Economy (Dresden, DE),
MPI Tax Law and Public Finance (Munich, DE) [invited],
International Institute of Public Finance (Dublin, IE),
Portuguese Economic Journal (Terceira, PT),
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (Ghent, BE),
European Public Choice Society (Groningen, NL).
2014 Interdisciplinary Workshop Institutional Economics (Bleibach, DE),
European Economic Association (Toulouse, FR),
International Institute of Public Finance (Lugano, CH),
Portuguese Economic Journal (Braga, PT),
European Public Choice Society (Cambridge, UK),
Finanzwissenschaftlicher Workshop (Hagen, DE).