About
I am a research assistant and undergraduate student at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, working towards a career in academia. Currently, I work on the EU Horizon Project RAWCLIC at the Institute for Ecological Economics, investigating the environmental water impacts of raw material extraction globally. My research interests are still taking shape—an early-career privilege, perhaps. But what fascinates me most centers on how policy shapes spatial inequality: who benefits, who bears costs, and how geography mediates these distributions. Methodologically, I'm drawn to spatial econometrics, questions of inference and robustness, and applications of machine learning that help answer causal questions in social science. Beyond my RA work, I co-coordinate a PhD-level research seminar series at WU, facilitating academic exchange across disciplines.
Research
RAWCLIC
Contributing to the development of a large-scale open-access database on water-related impacts of global mining activities as part of the EU HORIZON Project RAWCLIC (Developing knowledge on the future raw materials demand, supply and associated environmental impacts induced by the twin transition in the EU). Contributions include data collection, data management and quality assurance, and structuring of the database. The database serves as the foundation for a machine learning model being developed at the Institute for Ecological Economics at WU Vienna, designed to fill gaps where water data is not reported to improve the understanding of water usage patterns in the mining sector.
Unequal Coal Mining Displacements, insights from NRW Germany
This project investigates the socio-economic dimensions of displacement processes in German lignite mining regions, focusing on communities relocated by RWE. Working with limited publicly available data, I developed a proxy approach using average household size to capture socio-economic status—a workaround that enabled analysis where direct measures were unavailable. Early results suggest a statistically significant relationship between household size and displacement timing, pointing toward systematic patterns in who was relocated when. The analysis is ongoing, with robustness checks currently in progress.
Distributional Effects of EV Subsidies
This Project examines the distributional effects of Germany's EV subsidies, asking whether public charging infrastructure and fixed-amount subsidies end up flowing systematically into higher-income areas. The analysis combines fine-grained socioeconomic gridcell data with geocoded charging point locations and regional EV adoption patterns across roughly 170,000 charging points nationwide. The abrupt termination of federal subsidies in December 2023 allows to trace how infrastructure expansion responds—or fails to respond—in different areas, the study tests whether early subsidies created durable spatial advantages that persist beyond the policy itself.
Teaching & Teaching related activities
I co-coordinate a PhD-level socioeconomics research seminar series at the Department for Socioeconomics. The seminar centers on working paper presentations, creating space for both methodological and substantive discussion. It brings together doctoral students and faculty across the department for regular exchange throughout the semester.