Ph.D. in Economics
I am an applied microeconomist with research expertise in Economic Inequality, Household Finance, Intergenerational Mobility, Labor Economics, and Social Policy.
Since September 2025, I am a research officer at UNSW, 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 at CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA.
2021 to 2023, Postdoc at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany. 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, Germany.
Publications:
Publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, like Demography, Energy Policy, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Economic Inequality, and Survey Research Methods.
Publication of numerous Policy Briefs and Research Summaries for general audiences.
Education:
Ph.D. program on “Public Economics and Inequality" at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Graduation in November 2021, Thesis: "Inequality, Risk, and Wealth".
Saving Behaviour and Retirement Adequacy – analysed the relationship between investment risk and savings behaviour. In-debth analysis of Superannuation Wealth in Australia.
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Germany – provided the first systematic evidence on intergenerational wealth persistence using newly harmonised SOEP wealth data (1988–2017), showing stable rank–rank correlations around 0.25 and highlighting the role of homeownership and housing institutions in cross-country differences with the United States.
Energy Expenditure Inequality, Price Spikes, and Retrofitting policy – modelled household energy expenditure and assessed the distributional effects of price shocks, informing policy recommendations on affordability and fiscal design.
April 24, 2026: Workshop on Inequality and intergenerational mobility: Measuring what matters and why at ANU, Australia.
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".