About me

I am an Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Department of Economics) specializing in time series econometrics for macroeconomic and related applications. I am also an expert for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra of the European Commission, and an Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics. Prior to joining WU, I was a Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Vienna, a Post-doc at University of Salzburg, and a Visiting Researcher at Bocconi University.

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My research interests include empirical macroeconomics and econometric methods for dynamic models, with a particular focus on business cycles and forecasting. Methodologically, my work centers on time series analysis, Bayesian econometrics and machine learning. My work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Applied Econometrics and International Economic Review, among others.

Professional experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at WU Vienna, 09/2023–
• Expert, European Commission “Macro Modelling and Nowcast Pool,” JRC Ispra, 12/2020–

Previous

• Professor of Macroeconomics, Department of Economics at University of Vienna, 09/2022–08/2023
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Economics at Bocconi University, 03/2022–08/2022
• Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 11/2020-10/2021
• Post-doc, Department of Economics at University of Salzburg, 10/2019–08/2022

Professional activities

• Associate Editor, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2025-
• General Secretary of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), 2025-2026
• Memberships: American Economic Association (AEA), Austrian Economic Association (NOeG), Euro Area Business Cycle Network (EABCN), European Economic Association (EEA), Econometric Society (ES), International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
• Other: Local organizing and scientific committee member, 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE, Salzburg), 2022; Scientific Committee OeNB/SUERF Economic Conference 2025; EIPA course “Macroeconomy-at-Risk: Advanced Methods for Density and Tail Risk Predictions” for the European Commission (DG ECFIN)
• Referee: Computational Economics, ECB Working Paper Series, Econometrics and Statistics, Economic Modelling, Economic Systems, Empirica, Empirical Economics, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, German Economic Review, IMF Economic Review, International Economics, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Macroeconomic Dynamics, OeNB Jubiläumsfonds, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, PLOS One, Real Estate Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of International Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Statistica Sinica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Quantitative Economics

Education

• Venia docendi in Economics at University of Salzburg (01/2023), habilitation “Structural and predictive inference with parametric and nonparametric models in economics”
• Ph.D. in Economics at WU Vienna (09/2019), thesis “Bayesian inference in high-dimensional multivariate time series models with applications in macroeconomics and finance”
• MSc. in Economics at WU Vienna (06/2018)
• BSc. in Business, Economics and Social Sciences at WU Vienna (07/2016)

Honors and awards

• Award of Excellence (Staatspreis) for the dissertation “Bayesian inference in high-dimensional multivariate time series models with applications in macroeconomics and finance,” awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, 2020
• Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship 2020 (KLERS), awarded by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), 05/2021–10/2021

My favorite things include rock & roll and heavy metal, cycling and running, barbecuing, and various kinds of racing.