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I am an Assistant Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business (Department of Economics) specializing in econometrics for macroeconomic and related applications. I am also an Expert for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra of the European Commission, and serve as an Associate Editor for Macroeconomic Dynamics.

My research interests include empirical macroeconomics and econometric methods for dynamic models, with a particular focus on business cycle analysis and forecasting. Methodologically, my work centers on time series, 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, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, and International Journal of Forecasting, among others.

CV

  • Assistant Professor Department of Economics, WU Vienna09/2023–
  • Expert European Commission “Macro Modelling and Nowcast Pool,” JRC Ispra12/2020–

Past Positions

  • Professor of Macroeconomics Department of Economics, University of Vienna09/2022–08/2023
  • Visiting Researcher Department of Economics, Bocconi University03/2022–08/2022
  • Research Scholar International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)11/2020–10/2021
  • Postdoc Department of Economics, University of Salzburg10/2019–08/2022

Activities

  • Associate Editor Macroeconomic Dynamics2025–
  • General Secretary 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 committee member, Annual Meeting NOeG 2026 (CEU, Vienna); Local organizing and scientific committee member, 12th European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE, Salzburg), 2022; Scientific Committee OeNB/SUERF Economic Conference 2025, 2026; EIPA course “Macroeconomy-at-Risk: Advanced Methods for Density and Tail Risk Predictions” for the European Commission (DG ECFIN)

Referee

  • Journals Energy Economics, IMF Economic Review, International Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Quantitative Economics, among others
  • Other ECB Working Paper Series, OeNB Jubiläumsfonds, Swiss National Science Foundation

Education

  • Venia Docendi University of Salzburg, Economics, habilitation “Structural and predictive inference with parametric and nonparametric models in economics”01/2023
  • Ph.D. WU Vienna, Economics, “Bayesian inference in high-dimensional multivariate time series models with applications in macroeconomics and finance”09/2019
  • MSc. WU Vienna, Economics06/2018
  • BSc. WU Vienna, Business, Economics and Social Sciences07/2016

Honors

  • Award of Excellence (Staatspreis) “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 Research2020
  • Klaus Liebscher Economic Research Scholarship 2020 awarded by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB, KLERS)05/2021–10/2021

Grants

  • Between fostering and limiting central bank independence: The impact of constitutional courts decisions Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank (co-PI, principal investigator: F. Huber), total funding EUR 118,0002020–2022
  • Inference with Bayesian nonparametric models in the presence of measurement errors and outliers Jubiläumsfonds der Oesterreichischen Nationalbank (PI), total funding EUR 168,000, project 18765 website2022–2024

Presentations

  • Recent 13th ECB Conference on Forecasting Techniques, SNB Research Seminar (Zürich), Insightful Minds in International Macro Seminar (IMIM, online), Economics Research Seminar (JKU Linz), 15th RCEA Bayesian Econometrics Workshop (Universidad del Atlántico Medio)

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