About me

I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of St.Gallen. My research covers topics in political, media, and development economics. I am particularly interested in bringing natural language processing techniques to applied economics research.

My Ph.D. supervisor is Roland Hodler.

Current Research

• Media Slant is Contagious, with Sergio Galletta and Elliott Ash

• Born in the Right Place? Ministers’ Favoritism and Infant Mortality, with Noémie Zurlinden – submitted

• Mining Narratives from Large Text Corpora, with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier (draft out soon)

• Online Media: Ownership, Reach, and Market Concentration, with Ulrich Matter (draft out soon)

• Web Mining- and Text-Based Approaches to Media Freedom

Teaching

• Undergraduate level (TA)
  • Public Economics (2017-2021)
  • Data Handling: Import, Cleaning and Visualisation (2019-2021)
  • Introduction to Microeconomics (2017-2018)
• Graduate level (TA)
  • Political Economics (2020)