I am an assistant professor in behavioral economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute of Markets and Strategy, and a research fellow funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Hertha Firnberg Program. I am also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (IHS). 

My research uses randomized controlled trials and lab-in-the-field experiments to study how individual characteristics and institutional design affect opportunities in labor-market, financial, and educational contexts. I work with people that are underrepresented in existing studies, and my aim is to provide empirically and theoretically grounded evidence for designing institutions and policies that are both fairer and more effective.

Gender inequality is a topic I care deeply about. In a recent study (European Economic Review, 2026), we show in a large-scale RCT that girls' early STEM interest is malleable and a digital intervention can close about 20% of the gender gap. 

My doctoral thesis laid the foundation for my future research and is available here.