Ph.D. in Economics
I am an applied microeconomist with research expertise in Household Finance, Labor Economics, Economic Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility.
Since September 2025, I have been based in Australia, seeking new opportunities.
I am currently a research officer at UNSW (part time), as well as an associated researcher at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York.
Previous Positions:
2023 to 2025 Research Associate at Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality (CUNY Graduate Center, New York).
2021 to 2023, Postdoc at the Humboldt Universität, Project: "The intergenerational reproduction of wealth inequality and its socio-demographic conditions in Germany".
2022 to 2023, Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute of Labour Economics, Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Education:
Ph.D. program on “Public Economics and Inequality" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Graduation in November 2021, Thesis: "Inequality, Risk, and Wealth".
GC Wealth Project (CUNY Stone Center) – led cross-country data harmonisation on wealth portfolios to improve the empirical foundation of global inequality research.
Energy Price Inequality and Household Impacts – modelled household energy expenditure and assessed the distributional effects of price shocks, informing policy recommendations on affordability and fiscal design.
Saving Behaviour and Retirement Adequacy – analysed the relationship between investment risk and savings behaviour. In-debth analysis of Superannuation Wealth in Australia.
Advisor to the German Minimum Wage Commission – provided quantitative evidence on wage and employment trends, contributing to evidence-based statutory wage adjustments.
August 3: International Conference on Empirical Economics (ICEE PSU Altoona), hosted by Pennsylvania State University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"
July 9 to 11: Eleventh ECINEQ Conference the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality World Bank, Washington DC, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"
Seminar: June 24, 2025, at the Stone Center Seminar CUNY, NYC, USA. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany."
June 4: 2025 RCEA International Conference on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, New Jersey City University, NJ, USA., topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"
April 10 to 13: Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting, topic: Wealth Inequality among Families in a Changing Demographic Landscape: Evidence from Germany, 1988–2017
Friday, February 21, 2025 51th Annual Conference - Eastern Economic Association in New York, topic: "Return heterogeneity vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality?"
January 3–5, 2025: AEA in San Francisco, USA., Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".
Seminar: August 8, 2024, at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".
Seminar: August 5, 2024, at the Macro Seminar, Economics Department at The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Topic: "Returns vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality."
Seminar: August 1, 2024, at the Productivity Commission, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany".
Seminar: July 31, 2024, at the Research School of Economics at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective".
Seminar: July 30, 2024, at the Crawford School of Public Policy at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Topic: "De-routinization of Jobs and the Distribution of Earnings: A Cross-Country Comparison".
Seminar: July 25, 2024, at the Economics Department at University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. Topic: "Stability in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission Levels in Germany".
Conference: July 10th - 12, 2024, Australian Conference of Economists, University of Adelaide, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns on Workers’ Wages: A Distributional Perspective"
Workshop: Utah Public Finance Invitational Conference 2024, June 11 — June 13, 2024, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Topic: Returns vs. Participation: The Big Levers of Financial Wealth Inequality.
Workshop: Inequality by the Numbers 2024, Monday, June 3 — Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, New York City, USA. https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/inequality-numbers-2024
Conference: February 28th to March 2, at YSI @ the 50th Eastern Economics Association Conference, Boston, USA. Topic: "The GC Wealth Project".
Seminar: January 30, 2024, at the Economics Department at Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns".
Seminar: January 26, 2024, at the OeNB in Vienna, Austria. Topic: "Augmented Wealth in Australia".
Seminar: January 12, 2024, at the e61 Institute, Sydney, Australia. Topic: "The Scarring Effects of Firm Shutdowns".