Profile

I  am an economist currently working at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis. I have a PhD from  Spatial Economics - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where I was supervised by Jos van Ommeren and Erik Verhoef.  Before my PhD, I studied  Economics  and Econometrics at Tinbergen Institute,  Spatial Transport and Environmental Economics at  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Future Planet Studies at Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2019, I  visited  Imperial College London, where I worked with Dan Graham at the Transport Strategy Centre.

My research focuses on empirical applications in transport economics and environmental economics. So far I have studied road safety, immediate effects of air pollution, and urban cycling related topics. For the latter, I use public data of bicycle sharing schemes in major cities  (e.g. Paris, London, New York City).  See Research for more information.

For fun, I am also a musician (see Music) and a podcast host (see Podcast).