BIO 

BASIC INFO

• Name: Sofia Maier

• Current residence: Madrid 

• Nationalities: German &  Uruguayan 

• Born: 1986 (Montevideo)

• Languages:  Spanish (native), English (fluent), Italian (intermediate), French/Portuguese (basic)

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

• PhD in Applied Economics (University of Antwerp): full-time BOF research grant: 2015-2019

• MsC in Economics  / International Economics (Erasmus University of Rotterdam - cum laude): 2011-2012

• BA in Economics (UDELAR): 2005-2011

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Research Expert - LISER (Energy Transition project)  (2025- current)

• Senior Public Policy Advisor, Government of Spain (2025- 2026)

• Economic Analyst – Fiscal Policy Analysis Unit  - European Commission, JRC.B2 Seville (2019–2025)

• PhD Researcher (PhD full-time BOF research grant) - University of Antwerp (2015-2019)

• Economist / Social Policy Advisory – Presidency of Uruguay, Budget and Planning Office (2013–2015)

• Economic Consultant on Multidimensional Poverty, Time-use and Gender – UNDP (short-term consultancies in 2012/13, 2015)

• Junior Economic Consultant – PwC (2009–2011)

TEACHING & RESEARCH SUPERVISION

• PhD Co-Supervisor
  LISER | 2025–Present

• EUROMOD training - support

European Commission, JRC - Seville | 2021-2025

• Assistant Lecturer – Graduate Economic Seminar
  University of Antwerp | 2017–2018
  Including supervision of master’s theses.

• University Lecturer – Economics I
  Universidad de la República | 2010–2011

• Secondary School Economics Teacher
  State Public High-Schools in Uruguay | 2008–2011

TRAINING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Summer School on Socioeconomic Inequality, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working, University of Chicago, Bonn, August 2016

• Advanced Econometrics, KU Leuven, 2015.

•  Welfare, Poverty and Inequality, KU Leuven, 2016.

• Advanced Applied Econometrics, KU Leuven, 2016.

• Intensive Course on Inequality and the Changing Distribution of Income, CEEL Program in Adaptive Economics Dynamics, 16th Trento Summer School, Trento, 2015.

• Panel Data Methods with Jeff Wooldridge, CEMMAP, London, May 2015.

• Trainers of Trainers Program for Latin-American Professors, Council of Economic Education / U.S. Department of Education, 2009–2010. Modules held in Asunción, Guadalajara, Montevideo and Mexico City.

LANGUAGES

Spanish — Native
English — Fluent
Italian — Intermediate
Portuguese — Basic
French — Basic

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Stata — Advanced
LaTeX — Advanced
Microsoft Office — Advanced
R — Basic
SPSS — Basic
EUROMOD — Advanced / Expert