I have completed my Masters in Economics at the Central European University (then located in Budapest, Hungary; now in Vienna, Austria) and then my Ph.D. in Economics at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA in 2010. 

I spent two terms visiting the Dale T. Mortensen Centre at Aarhus University as a visiting research fellow. Since 2017, I have been a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies in Riga, Latvia. 

My research interests lie at the intersection of Macroeconomics and Labor Economics. I study general equilibrium models of individuals and firms and how their behaviour is affected by different policies. I work with large administrative datasets that include millions of individuals and/or thousands of firms, as well as household surveys from multiple countries (incl. UK, US, Latvia, Denmark). My recent line of work looks at this in a development context as well, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). My research involves intensive data work and computationally demanding estimation.