Since 2023 , Associate researcher at the Centre for Studies and Researches on International Development (CERDI) – University Clermont-Auvergne, France.
Since 2015, Research Officer, Fondation for Studies and Researches on International Development, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2025 Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche, CERDI-UCA, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
2014 & 2019 French Qualification for Assistant/Associate Professor tenure.
2013 Ph.D. in Economics, CERDI – University Clermont-Auvergne.
Doctoral thesis: "Export instability, corruption and how the former influences the latter", summa cum laude.
Jury: Patrick Guillaumont (CERDI, Supervisor), Bernard Gauthier (HEC Montreal, Referee), Jan W. Gunning (VU Amsterdam, Referee), Olivier Cadot (HEC Lausanne), Alexander Sarris (University of Athen), Jean-Louis Combes (CERDI), Vianney Dequiedt (CERDI, President).
November 2022: Visiting researcher at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), Marseille, France.
August 2018: Visiting researcher at Bar-Ilan University, Economics Department, Tel-Aviv (Ramat-Gan) Israël.
Elinor Oström Prize laureate with Elise S. Brezis for the best full-length article published in the Journal of Institutional Economics in 2019.
Finalist of the U4 Proxy Challenge Competition 2014, Chr. Michelsen Institue - U4 Anti-corruption Center.