QPE PhD students

We started our PhD program a few years ago. Yet, we have already had brilliant PhD students in QPE of whom we are proud:

Academic placements

• Aurelia Ananda received a PhD in political science in 2023. She is now an Teaching Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London (Supervisor: Damien Bol).

• Elisa Antoine received a PhD in political science in 2023. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government of the London School of Economics (Supervisor: Adam Chalmers)

• Andrew Hunter received a PhD in political science in 2023. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for the Politics of Feeling ar Royal Holloway University London (Supervisor: Damien Bol).

• Francesco Pierangeli received a PhD in political economy in 2023. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Business School of the University of Birmingham (Supervisor: Amrita Dhillon)

• Nina Weber received a PhD in economics in 2023. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the IFO Institute Centre for Social Market Economy (Supervisor: Shaun Hargreaves Heap).

• Michele Scotto di Vettimo received a PhD in political science in 2022. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics of the University of Exeter (Supervisor: Christel Koop).

• Asli Unan received a PhD in political science in 2022 . She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Supervisor: Kostas Matakos).

• Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte received a PhD in political science in 2020. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Southampton (Supervisor: Christel Koop).

• Ria Ivandic received a PhD in economics in 2019. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. She is also a Researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics (Supervisor: Amrita Dhillon).

Non academic placements

• Jeevun Sandher is currently finishing a PhD in economics in 2022. He is now Head Economist at New Economics Foundation. He is also the Labour candidate  in Loudbourough for next general election (Supervisor: David Hope).

• Karen Jeffrey received a PhD in economics in 2021. She is now a  Data Analyst in Medical Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (Supervisor: Kostas Matakos).

• Negar Habibi received a PhD in economics in 2019. She is now a Data Scientist at HSBC (Supervisor: Amrita Dhillon).

A list of current QPE PhD students and their dissertation topic is here:

• Gabriela Aguirre Fernandez: "Strategic voting in different electoral systems: A comparative analysis" (Supervisor: Damien Bol)

• Irene Germani: "The political consequences of austerity on public opinion" (Supervisor: Rubén Ruiz Rufino)

• Guy Heilbrun: "The dynamics of financial inclusion, state capacity, and development" (Supervisor: Julian Limberg)

• Johan Kasim: "Natural resources and Industrial development: Lessons from Indonesia"  (Supervisor: Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Nick Khaw: "The political economy of industrial policies" (Supervisor: Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Lina Kramer: "How do we ensure that AI-driven automation of work benefits the many instead of the few? How should public policy respond to the impact of automation on the labour and income distribution" (Supervisor: Amrita Dhillon)

• Matteo Nebbiai: "Building digital markets: the impact of voluntary regulation on the personal data economy" (Supervisor: Christel Koop)

• Ricardo Perkasa: "The effectiveness of elections in providing good governance and prosperity" (Supervisor: Rubén Ruiz Rufino)

• Santiago Quintero Suarez: "The politics of impatient bureaucracies. Public sector reform, time preferences and local policy networks for sustainable development in Latin America" (Supervisor: Francesca Vantaggiato)

• Mayang Rizky: "Understanding citizens’ attitudes towards digital markets" (Supervisor: Christel Koop)

• Anri Sakakibara: "Did globalization improve the lives of lower income households in Vietnam after 1987" (Supervisor: Pierre-Louis Vezina)

• Luis Soto Tamayo: "Measuring nepotism and its effects on the Mexican public institutions" (Supervisor: Gabriel Leon-Ablan)

• Xiaoyun Tang: "Banking panics and banking crises in late 19th/early 20th century China"  (Supervisor: David Chilosi)

• Tim Schaitberger: "Living wage policy relationship to human and social capital" (Supervisor: David Hope)

• Ying Song: "The long-term effect of layoffs: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprise reform" (Supervisor: Yonatan Berman)