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. I am currently visiting the Paris School of Economics, hosted by Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. I visited ETH Zurich in 2019, hosted by Elliott Ash.

Current Research

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

• Ministers Engage in Favoritism Too, with Noémie Zurlinden

• Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives, with Elliott Ash and Germain Gauthier (our Python package relatio extracts narrative statements from text, see on GitHub or PyPI)

• Who Owns the Online Media?, with Ulrich Matter

Teaching

• Undergraduate level (TA)
  • Public Economics (2017-2021)
  • Data Handling: Import, Cleaning and Visualisation (2019-2021)
  • Introduction to Microeconomics (2017-2018)
• Graduate level (TA)
  • Failed States (2021)
  • Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, see also here (2021)
  • Political Economics (2020)