Vita

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Lille, with experience living, studying, and working across several countries. My research examines how political and cultural factors shape subnational foreign direct investment. I bridge rigorous quantitative analysis with policy-oriented insight across international economics, political economy, and regional economics.

Current position

• Doctoral Candidate, University of Lille, France, 2023 – ongoing
  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Quentin David and Prof. Dr. Abel François
  • Research focus: political and cultural determinants of subnational FDI location

Education

• Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Economics of Globalisation and European Integration (EMJMD EGEI), University of Lille, France, 2021-2023
  • University of Tartu, Estonia, Fall 2022-23
  • Ghent University, Belgium, Spring 2022
  • University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy, Fall 2021-22

• Master of Arts in Quantitative Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia, 2021-2023

• B.Sc. in International Economics and South Asian Studies, University of Tubingen, Germany, 2016-2021
  • Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary, Fall 2019-20

Work experience

• Foreign Policy Affairs Intern at the German Embassy to Italy, Rome, Summer 2023
• Research Intern at the ifo Institute, Center of International Economics, Munich, Spring 2023
• International Business Intern at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Dusseldorf, Germany, Summer 2022
• Social Voluntary Gap Year, Don Bosco Ashalayam, Lucknow, India, 2015-2016

Skills

• Mathematical and statistical software: R (proficient user), STATA (proficient user), Matlab (independent user) and QGIS (independent user)
• Document creation: LaTeX (proficient user), Markdown (independent user), and MS Office (proficient user)
• Languages: English and German (Native/bilingual proficiency), French and Italian (Full professional proficiency), Hindi (Limited working proficiency)

Research visits

• University of Bayreuth, upon invitation by Prof. Dr. David Stadelmann, August 2025
• Sciences Po Paris, upon invitation by Prof. Dr. Pierre-Henri Bono, regular visitor since 2023

Complementary training

• PSE International Trade Summer School, Paris, France, June 2025
• WTI Summer Academy course on the Proposed EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, World Trade Institute, Bern, Switzerland, June 2022

Presentations

• 2025: 8th Economics and Politics Workshop Grenoble, 15th Economics of Global Interactions Conference Bari, 4th PhD Student Research Day IAE Lille, Paris School of Economics Summer School, LEM Doctoral Day Lille, 22nd Augustin Cournot Doctoral Days Strasbourg
• 2024: 3rd Green Trade Workshop Leuven, 20th Euroframe Conference Kiel, 4th Environmental Economics Conference Orleans, LEM Doctoral Day Lille

Honours and awards

• LEM Call for Projects winner, April 2025
• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship holder, 2021-2023