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I'm an assistant professor at the University College Dublin, School of Economics since 2020. I am an Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin since September 2022. I am also the PhD Programme Director in the School of Economics. 

My research interests focus on public finance, specifically personal income taxation, at the intersection of international trade, welfare economics, and political economy. I have published in top ranked journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, and International Tax and Public Finance.

I am currently working on the effects of income taxation on global inequality, as well as the transition from tariff-reliant to tax-reliant economies and its effects for economic growth and inequality. My past research studied the effects of globalization on the distribution of tax burdens across workers along the income distribution and the impact of income taxes on the location preferences of firms.

I am a research affiliate of the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) in the International Trade and Regional Economics programme area. I am also member of SKATTEFORSK -- Centre for Tax Research, the Standing Field Committee on Public Economics of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economics Association), the Dublin European Institute, and the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. I also serve as a managing editor of the German Economic Review. I am a co-chair of the IEA Public Economics Network and a co-organizer of IPEW - the Irish Public Economics Workshop (along with E. Hargaden and B. Roantree).

Before joining UCD in September of 2020, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Applied Economics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). I received my PhD in Economics from ETH Zurich in 2017 and also hold a BA and MA in Economics from New York University.