Academic Employment
since 2026 — Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Hamburg.
2018-2026 — Assistant Professor of Economics at Heidelberg University.
2016-2018 — Post-doctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Education
2015 – PhD Economics, University of Zurich (Summa cum laude)
2010 – MSc Finance, University of Lausanne (Thesis awarded 6/6)
2008 – BSc Finance, Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest (Thesis awarded 10/10)

Books
Environmental Finance and Investments, Springer Texts in Business and Economics (2015), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, with M. Chesney, J. Gheyssens, and L. Taschini.
– A Chinese edition of this book has been published in 2016.

Commissioned Projects
2016 – 2019 The Dutch Development Bank (FMO). Green products evaluation in rural India.
2017 – 2018 The Swiss Office for Meteorology and Climatology. The quinoa market and weather impacts in Peru.
2015 UN REDD Programme. The market for ecosystem services in Paraguay.

Grants
2023 – 2025, Institute for Replication (5,000 USD), Joint with: Diego Marino Fages (Durham University).
2020 – 2023, Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany (180,000 EUR).
2020 – 2024, Andrea von Braun Foundation (40,000 EUR).
2020 – 2022, Joachim Herz Foundation (15,000 EUR).

Teaching
Environmental Economics
The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation
The Economics of Carbon Pricing
Applied Empirical Methods
Field Experiments Design