Curriculum Vitae
Education 🎓
Master’s Thesis: “Education, Local Democracy, and Economic Development in 19th-Century France” Advisors: Roberto Galbiati, Emeric Henry Awarded Sciences Po Prize for Best Master’s Thesis
Research Experience 🔬
Predoctoral Position
Supervisor: Hans-Joachim Voth
- Contribute to projects in economic history, political economy, and cultural economics, including the IMAGES project.
- For IMAGES, contributed to an existing computer-vision workflow for historical images, including preprocessing, labeling/validation, supervised training runs, and feature extraction.
- For an ongoing project on the French Revolution, developing an initial data pipeline linking archival, textual, and geospatial sources; conducted historical geocoding and GIS integration.
- Produced documented code, draft figures/tables, and internal research memos using Python, Stata, and QGIS.
Replication Work
Supervisor: Florian Oswald
- Execute authors’ replication code to verify that published tables and figures are reproducible and consistent with reported results.
- Assess data integrity, documentation quality, and code robustness; diagnose discrepancies and rebuild software environments when needed (Stata/R; Git-based workflows).
- Author detailed replication reports to the Data Editor specifying missing components and required fixes.
Supervisor: Florian Oswald
- Conducted reproducibility checks for accepted articles at The Economic Journal using authors’ replication packages under editorial supervision.
Research Assistantships
Supervisor: Roberto Galbiati
- Contributed to the construction of an original individual-level dataset from a primary historical source documenting financial contributions to an anti-Dreyfusard campaign in late 19th-century France.
- Manually transcribed and cleaned donor records (names, locations, contribution amounts, messages); these data are currently used in an ongoing research draft.
- Contributed to preliminary qualitative exploration of message content to inform subsequent text-based analysis.
Supervisors: Roberto Galbiati, Aurelie Ouss (UPenn)
- Collected and cleaned individual-level data from police reports (IGPN), press sources, and death notices for post-1980 France.
- Produced a documented dataset and suggested corrections to baseline data.
- Contributed to CNIL (GDPR) policy impact assessment through data documentation, integrity checks, and risk assessment.
Supervisor: Mathieu Perona
- Contributed to the construction of a database on well-being economics researchers in France. Conducted literature reviews and exploratory empirical work for academic projects.
Project on Arms Trade History (PATH)
- Extracted arms trade data from French customs reports (Tableaux généraux du commerce de la France, 19th century) using archival microfilms for the construction of a historical database on the global arms trade.
Additional Experiences
- Conducted economic and environmental analysis of transportation infrastructure projects in Pakistan.
Teaching assistant in Comparative Political Institutions (undergraduate level).
Methods and Programming Skills 🛠️
Mathematical Preparation: Probability Theory; Linear Algebra; Optimization; Dynamic Programming
Quantitative Methods: panel data; spatial analysis; historical data construction; text data; image data
Programming: Python; R (advanced); Stata; Julia (intermediate)
Tools: Git; LaTeX; GIS; OCR; computer vision; web scraping; reproducible workflows
Graduate Coursework 📚
Econometrics I-III: Probability and Statistics; Estimation and Inference; Causal Inference with Cross-Sectional and Panel Data
Microeconomics I-II: Optimal Choice and Equilibrium; Game Theory
Macroeconomics I-III: Growth Models; Business Cycles; Macro-Finance and Heterogeneous-Agent Models
Computational Economics: Dynamic Programming; Incomplete-Market Models; Numerical Solution Methods
Selected Fields: Economic History; Political Economy; Urban & Regional Economics; International Trade; Demography
Languages 🌍
French (Native) | English (C2) | Italian (C1) | German (B1)