I am Assistant Professor at the Research Institute Economics of Inequality and the Department Socioeconomics at WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business. I am also Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, a World Inequality Lab Research Fellow and Associate at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the CUNY Graduate Center. I am also contributing to the GC Wealth Project.

In 2024 I was an expert advisor to the Good Council for Redistribution (Guter Rat für Rückverteilung), and I am Principal Investigator of the WWTF-funded Project MOBILITY-PATH: Multidimensional Intergenerational Mobility and Pathways to Upward Mobility and of the project POSTED: Cross-border Posting of Workers: Effects on Firms and Workers, funded by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

At WU Vienna, I am teaching Economics of Inequality at the BSc, MSc and PhD level, and I organize the Economics of Inequality Seminar Series.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher with the Inequality in Rome Research Group. In the fall 2023 term, I was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY), and I have held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, LISER, LSE and LMU Munich.

My research aims at fostering our understanding of how social, economic and political institutions and mechanisms link inequalities in opportunities to inequalities in outcomes. Within this framework, I focus on the distribution of wealth, intergenerational mobility and the geography of inequality.

Most of my work has a strong policy focus, and I actively disseminate my research findings to diverse audiences. I regularly contribute to the public debate and write for blogs and the print press.

On this page, you find information about my publications, working papers and ongoing research projects, and a selection of public writing, policy papers and media appearances.

Do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or want to discuss my work or yours!

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