I joined the UCL Social Research Institute as an Associate Professor in Economics after working as a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher in the same department. I completed my DPhil (PhD) in Economics at the University of Oxford as a Weidenfeld Scholar. I am a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

Before completing my DPhil, I was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany and completed an MA in Education at the Free University Berlin. I hold a BSFS in International Economics with a minor in German and European Studies from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.