PhD Students

First placements are shown where available.

(* first supervisor; # second or joint supervisor; † committee member)

Continuing

  • # Qunli Hu (St Andrews)

  • * Jakub Kowalczyk (St Andrews)

  • # Pengkheang Yoeun (St Andrews)

2026

  • # Francesca Chiaradia (St Andrews), Postdoctoral Researcher, El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy, Judge Business School University of Cambridge

  • * Kairat Umargaliyev (St Andrews)

2024

  • # Ciarán MacDomhnaill (St Andrews), Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Dublin; Associate Fellow, UK Higher Education Authority

2021

  • * Gabriel Movsesyan (CUNY), Staff Fellow, Office of Planning, Food and Drug Administration

2020

  • * Eric Osborne (CUNY), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Pace University

  • * Shaoying Ma (CUNY), Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University

  • * Irena Palamani Xhurxhi (CUNY), Economist, Amazon

2019

  • † Pablo Crespo (CUNY), Senior Data Scientist, Etsy

  • † Lisa Höckel (Ruhr Graduate School), Postdoctoral Researcher, RWI Essen

  • * Agustin Indaco (CUNY), Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

  • † Hoda Nouri Khajavi (CUNY), Data Scientist, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

2018

2017

2016

  • † Onur Altındağ (CUNY), Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University School of Public Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bentley University, after one-year deferral

  • # Markus Gehrsitz (CUNY), Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde

  • * Stephen D. O’Connell (CUNY), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics, MIT

  • † Aig Unuigbe (CUNY), Research Economist, Haas Center, University of West Florida

  • * Alice Zulkarnain (CUNY), Research Economist, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College; Postdoctoral Fellow, NBER (12 months)

2015

  • # Vanessa Dräger (Cologne), Advisor, KPMG Luxembourg

  • † Mei Liao (CUNY)

  • † Jesse Margolis (CUNY), Postdoctoral Fellow, Wagner School, New York University

  • * Zhendong Zhao (CUNY), Senior Associate, Ernst & Young

2014

  • # Jenny Bennett (Cologne, Sociology), Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik, Cologne

  • † Jang Wook Lee (CUNY), Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Rockefeller Institute

  • * David Lempert (CUNY), Senior Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury

  • † Luz Salas (CUNY), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

2013

  • † Takuya Hasebe (CUNY), Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Health Services, University of California, Davis

  • † Ruoding Tan (CUNY), Associate, Analysis Group

2012

  • * Cassie Lau (CUNY), Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carthage College

  • * Leigh Ann Leung (CUNY), AHRQ Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Public Health, Brown University

  • * Bilesha Weeraratne (CUNY), Postdoctoral Research Associate, New Immigrant Survey, Princeton University

  • † Yan Jiang (CUNY), Vice President, Citibank

2011

  • # Judith Niehues (Cologne), Senior Economist, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Cologne

  • # Juliane Parys (Bonn), Engagement Manager, McKinsey

  • † Robert Widura (Cologne), Associate Principal, McKinsey

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