I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance at SBE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . I am also a Macro Lecturer at Tinbergen Institute. As of January 2024, I have been appointed as Research Fellow at Tinbergen Institute.

In the fall term of  2023 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick.

I obtained my PhD (D.Phil) in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School in 2020.  Before my PhD, I obtained MPhil in Economics with Distinction from the Department of Economics, University of Oxford and worked as a full-time economist at the Bank of England. 

Research interests: international/macro-finance, money-liquidity and default, financial intermediation, sustainable macro-finance

Teaching:  Macroeconomics with Financial Frictions (MPhil core module), Tinbergen Institute, (2021-  ) ;  International Finance, VU Amsterdam, (2020-) . 

At the VU and TI, I supervise PhD, MPhil, and MSc students. 

I am also a co-organiser of the Tinbergen Macro Seminar Series since September 2021. 

Recent and upcoming activities (2023-2024): 

(New Working Paper) Breaking the Trilemma: Seigniorage, Endogenous Remittances, and Digital Currencies,  joint with Remco C.J. Zwinkels, prepared under the Thematic Research Fellowship Programme by the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

(New) I am co-organising 2024 Oxford Saïd- VU SBE Macro-Finance Conference, Call for Paper. Keynote:  Simon Gilchrist (NYU), Sir. John Vickers (All Souls, Oxford)

(New) Seminar at USC Macro-Finance Reading Group (scheduled)

(New) Seminar at Waseda University (scheduled)

(New)  Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) Annual Meeting 2024, Frankfurt (scheduled) 

(New)  2024 EEA Annual Meeting, Rotterdam (scheduled)

(New) 2024 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society - China (scheduled)

(New) 2024 EFA programme committee 

(New) 2024 AEA annual meetings (2x)

(New) Invited seminar at CPB The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy 

(New) Finance Seminar at University of Exeter Business School 

2023 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Manchester (2x, 

Session chair and presenter of the 11th Biennial HKEA Conference, The University of Hong Kong (scheduled)

2023 Annual Meeting of the European Finance Association (EFA) conference (discussion)

Society for Economic Dynamics 2023 SED Annual Meeting Acceptance for 'Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy' 

Co-organiser of the 2023 Oxford Saïd- Risk Center at ETH Zürich Macro-Finance Conference, Call for Paper. Keynote:  Raghuram Rajan (Chicago Booth), Paul Tucker (HKS)

University of Warwick Macroeconomics Theory Conference 

Helsinki Finance Seminar organised by Aalto University and Hanken School of Economics 

2023 Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society (AMES), NTU, Singapore

Programme committee of the 11th Oxford Financial Intermediation Theory Conference OXFIT

Research Fellowship to visit Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, September 2023

Financial Frictions, Zombie Firms and the Macroeconomy Conference in Wadham College, University of Oxford 

Scientific Committee of Rethinking Economic Theory - New approaches to economic challenges international workshop  with hosts and sponsorship by University Of Piraeus, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, SAID Business School University of Oxford

2023 FMA European Conference in partnership with Aalborg University Business School

2023 Royal Economic Society and Scottish Economic Society annual meeting in Glasgow (presentation scheduled)

INSPIRE grant hosted by ClimateWorks and LSE for 'Climate Risks and Price Stability' (joint with Dimitrios Tsomocos and Christina Laskaridis