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Employment

University of Limerick Assistant Professor in Economics, Kemmy Business School Course Director, MSc Economics and Policy Analysis Limerick, Ireland

Since 2022

TU Dortmund Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair of Urban, Regional, and International Economics, Department of Economics Dortmund, Germany

2017–2021

Education

Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. Economics Dissertation: “Research collaboration and dissemination in economics” Advisor: John O’Hagan; Committee: Christian Fons-Rosen, Carol Newman Dublin, Ireland

2013–2018

ENSAE Paris Statistician-Economist (~M.Sc. grande école programme) Paris, France

2010–2013

University of Mannheim M.Sc. Economics B.Sc. Economics (Minor in Mathematics) Mannheim, Germany

2011–2013 2008–2011

Skills & languages

Methods: Policy and programme evaluation (cost–benefit analysis, difference-in-differences, matching and weighting, panel and instrumental-variable methods), applied econometrics, spatial and regional analysis

Data: Construction, cleaning, and record linkage of large administrative, census, and bibliometric datasets

Software: R (excellent, including package development), LaTeX, working knowledge of Python, Stata, SAS, and Matlab

AI: Applied use of large language models and AI coding agents for data preparation, analysis, and code review

Languages: English (excellent), French (proficient), German (native)

Research and publications

Six peer-reviewed journal articles and one book chapter in applied economics, spanning innovation and science policy, urban and regional economics, cultural economics, and development. Full list with links on the publications page; work in progress on the research projects page.

Teaching and supervision

Postgraduate and undergraduate teaching in quantitative methods, econometrics, research design, and policy evaluation at the University of Limerick, TU Dortmund, and Trinity College Dublin. Supervision of around 30 undergraduate and master’s dissertations. Full list on the teaching page.

Honours & awards

Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship (€72,000) Irish Research Council

2014–2017

Department Scholarship (€36,000) Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin

2013–2017

ENSAE-Mannheim double degree scholarship Franco-German University (UFA-DFH)

2010–2013

Professional service

Referee: Southern Economic Journal, European Review of Economic History, Scientometrics, Journal of Cultural Economics.

Member: European Economic Association, Association for Cultural Economics International, Irish Economic Association.

Conference and seminar presentations

PUCK Bilbao 2014, EWACE Vienna 2015, ACEI Valladolid 2016, RGS Dortmund 2017, JME Le Mans 2017, EEA-ESEM Cologne 2018, EWACE Copenhagen 2019, ACEI Lille 2021, University of Limerick (department seminar) 2022, IEA Limerick 2022, University of Portsmouth (department seminar) 2022, EWACE Turin 2022, Maynooth University (department seminar) 2023, ACEI Bloomington 2023, RSA Florence 2024, KBS Limerick (seminar) 2025, PARTNER Strasbourg 2025, IEA Thurles 2026.

References

• Christiane Hellmanzik, Professor of Urban, Regional and International Economics, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
• John O’Hagan, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Carol Newman, Professor in Economics, Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Contact details available on request.