Bio & CV

You can find my full CV here.

I am a Senior Researcher at VATT Insitute for Economic Research in Helsinki. My research focuses on local public finance, regional and urban economics, and applied microeconomics more broadly. I study how public policy shapes and responds to the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, with recent work examining place-based policies, housing markets, and local government incentives.

I hold a PhD in Economics from KU Leuven, where I was part of the Research Center for Regional Economics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jozef Konings. Before joining VATT in 2019, I was involved in research projects on local taxation, entrepreneurship and regional development, and I gained experience in policy evaluation through both academic and applied work. I am also affiliated with Turku School of Economics, where I teach a Master’s course in empirical urban economics.

Education
2014-2019:	PhD in Economics, KU Leuven
2014-2015:	MPhil Advanced Studies in Economics, KU Leuven
2012-2014:	MSc in Economics, KU Leuven The Washington Center (Fall 2012)
2009-2012:	BSc in Business Economics, KU Leuven University of British Columbia (Fall 2011) IESEG (Fall 2010) Furman University (Summer 2010)
Research Visits
Winter 2019:	Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics, JIBS
Fall 2018:	Barcelona Institute for Economics, UB
Summer 2018:	Johannes Keppler University Linz
External Presentations
2024:	University of Turku, School of Economics 80th Annual Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics, JIBS 13th European Meeting of the UEA 1st Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics
2023:	NTA 116th Annual Conference on Taxation Department of Economics, University of Antwerp 12th European Meeting of the UEA LISER workshop on Land and Housing Inequality and Redistribution
2022:	16th North American Meeting of the UEA 12th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics 78th Annual Congress of the IIPF ZEW Public Finance Conference 21st Journées LAGV
2020:	76th Annual Congress of the IIPF ZEW Public Finance Conference 2020 Workshop on Public Policies: Inequality of opportunity
2019:	14th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association 6th Annual MaTax Conference 59th ERSA Congress CEnSE seminar VATT seminar Annual GfR Winter Seminar
2018:	DG COMP evaluation workshop 2018 IEB seminar Counterfactual Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation (COMPIE) 2018 European Regional Science Association Conference 2018
2017:	Public Policies, Cities and Regions Workshop (GATE, Lyon) JRC Competence Centre on Microeconometric Evaluation seminar 2017 Barcelona Workshop on Regional and Urban Economics (AQR, Barcelona)