I am an Economist at the World Bank in Washington D.C. and a Research Fellow at the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) of ETH Zurich. My research interests include topics on income and wealth inequality, panel data econometrics, migration and natural disasters. I enjoy working with administrative, survey and remote-sensing data.

In my PhD thesis, I studied potential determinants of income inequality, such as globalization, financial liberalization and natural disasters, by focusing on different segments of the income distribution and different units of analysis, e.g. countries, counties and households. During my PhD, I was a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University in 2018.

I obtained my Master's degree in Economics at the University of Zurich. Prior to my Masters, I studied Economics (B.Sc. in 2014) and Political Science (B.A. in 2012) at the University of Munich. From 2012 to 2013, I conducted an Erasmus exchange year at the University of Bergen, Norway.