Coordinator: Michael Gmeiner
Becoming a predoc at LSE's Research Centres
The research centres (Centre for Economic Performance, Centre for Macroeconomics, and Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)) advertise positions for predoctoral research assistants (“predocs”) on the LSE’s recruitment website throughout the year.
Such jobs are usually listed as “Research Assistant” roles for a fixed term of 12 months initially, and will make clear the research areas of interest.
Successful applicants must have an undergraduate and/or master’s degree in economics or a closely related discipline, alongside well-developed quantitative skills and experience using statistical software such as Stata, R, or Python.
A I B I C I D I F I G I J I L I P I R I S I T I V I X I Z
Ufuk Altunbüken
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: u.altunbuken@lse.ac.uk
Ufuk is a pre-doctoral research assistant in CEP working under Steve Machin on labour market institutions. His main research interests include labour economics, public economics and economic history.
Ufuk holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
Teodora Andelkovic
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: T.Andelkovic@lse.ac.uk
Teodora is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD, working under Kate Smith. Her research interests lie in public economics, political economy, gender, and inequality.
Teodora holds an MSc from Nova School of Business and Economics.
Elie Chadaida
Research Assistant, Centre for Macroeconomics
Email: e.chadaida@lse.ac.uk
Elie is is a pre-doctoral research assistant in CFM working under Matthias Doepke and Ethan Ilzetzki. His research interests include household macroeconomics, monetary policy transmission, and wealth inequalities.
Elie holds an MSc in Finance and Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master of Engineering from CentraleSupélec. Before joining the CFM, he worked in the Directorate General of Market Operations at the European Central Bank, focusing on monetary policy frameworks and implementation.
Aristomenis Chrysafis-Progopoulos
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: a.chrysafis-progopoulos@lse.ac.uk
Aristomenis is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD working under Nava Ashraf and Oriana Bandiera at the Altruistic Capital Lab. His research interests include growth and development economics.
Aristomenis holds an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from LSE, and a BSc in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
Elibeth Cirilo Mendoza
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: e.m.cirilo-mendoza@lse.ac.uk
Elibeth is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the CEP. She works under Guy Michaels on the CEP Labour Markets research programme. Her research interests include microeconomics, causal inference, and machine learning, as well as urban and labour economics.
Elibeth holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a BA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Before joining LSE, she worked as a research assistant and consultant on topics related to environmental economics, education, political economy, and the application of machine learning to causal inference.
Paula Druschke
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: p.j.druschke@lse.ac.uk
Paula is a pre-doctoral research assistant at STICERD, working on the Child Penalty Atlas project under Camille Landais. Her research interests lie at the intersection of public economics, development economics, and the economics of inequality.
Paula holds a dual master's degree in the Political Economy of Development from Sciences Po Paris and the LSE. She is also a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics, where she studies global inequalities and the international economic system.
Ódran Farrell
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: o.farrell1@lse.ac.uk
Ódran is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD, working under Robin Burgess. His research interests lie at the intersection of development and environmental economics, with a particular focus on the relationship between the economy and the natural environment.
Ódran holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MSc in Economics Policy from Utrecht University.
Carlo Giuffré
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: c.giuffre@lse.ac.uk
Carlo is a pre-doctoral research assistant in CEP, working under Sandra McNally, Mimosa Distefano, and Chiara Cavaglia. His research interests lie at the intersection of education, labour, and health economics.
Carlo holds an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Bologna. Before joining CEP, he worked as a Research Assistant in Health Economics at the University of Bologna.
Zoé Hédouin
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: z.hedouin@lse.ac.uk
Zoe is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD. She works under Camille Landais and Kate Smith.
Zoe holds a Bachelor's degree from Paris Dauphine-PSL and UCL and a Master's degree in International Economics from Paris Dauphine-PSL. Before joining LSE, she worked in the Directorate General Monetary Policy at the European Central Bank and in the Economics Department of Société Générale.
Suryaansh Jain
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: s.jain87@lse.ac.uk
Suryaansh is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the CEP, working under Daniel Sturm on the Urban research programme. His research interests include urban economics, environmental economics and development economics.
Suryaansh holds a BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from LSE. Before joining CEP, he worked as an analyst in the competition practice at Charles River Associates.
Peter Le
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: t.le9@lse.ac.uk
Thuy (Peter) is a pre-doctoral fellow in STICERD, working with Oriana Bandiera, Clare Balboni, and Robin Burgess. His research interests lie at the intersection of development, spatial economics, and political economy.
Peter holds an MPhil from Oxford University and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Williams College, USA. Before joining LSE, he worked as a consultant at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and a pre-doctoral fellow at MIT with Clare Balboni.
Eloïse Leroux
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: e.leroux@lse.ac.uk
Eloïse is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD, working under Camille Landais. Her main areas of interest are public economics and environmental economics.
Eloïse holds a Master's degree in Economics from Institut Polytechnique de Paris and an Engineering Master's degree in Economic Policies and Dynamics from ENSAE Paris.
Charlie Robertson
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: c.robertson4@lse.ac.uk
Charlie is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD working under Mark Schankerman on "Incentives and Dynamics of Innovation", an ERC Advanced Grant project on patent screening and institutional design, where he applies methods from machine learning and natural language processing to large-scale patent data. His research interests include innovation and institutional design.
Charlie holds an MSc in Computing from Imperial College London, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
William Shepherd
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: w.shepherd@lse.ac.uk
Will is is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the CEP, working under Richard Davis (SPP). His current research interests include business dynamism and productivity.
Will holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Kent. Before joining CEP, he spent four years working at the Office for National Statistics as part of the Government Economic Service Degree Apprenticeship scheme, where he specialised in microdata research, developing and analysing datasets on topics such as business dynamism, international trade and graduate mobility.
James Symons-Hicks
Research Assistant, CFM
Email: j.symons-hicks@lse.ac.uk
James is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the Centre for Macroeconomics. He works under Matthias Doepke and Ethan Ilzetzki. His research interests include macroeconomics, financial economics and financial market microstructure.
James holds both a BSc and an MSc in Economics from University College London. Before joining LSE, he worked as a research assistant to Antonio Guarino at UCL.
Sven van Holten Charria
Research Assistant, CFM
Email: s.m.van-holten-charria@lse.ac.uk
Sven is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the CFM, working under under Ben Moll, Ricardo Reis and Joe Hazell. His research interests include econometric theory, macroeconomics, and household finance.
Sven holds a double BSc degree in Econometrics and Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and a MSc degree in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (EME) from the LSE.
Raphael von Busch
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: r.w.von-busch@lse.ac.uk
Raphael is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD, working under Xavier Jaravel.
Raphael holds an MSc in Economics from LSE, and undergraduate degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the University of California, Berkeley. He has two years of work experience at NERA Economic Consulting in New York, where he contributed to expert reports used in litigation and developed econometric models in the Finance and Securities practice. He also interned at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs (Economic Analysis unit).
Chloe Xu
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: c.xu100@lse.ac.uk
Chloe is a pre-doctoral research assistant in STICERD, working under Camille Landais. Her research interests lie in public economics, gender and inequality.
Chloe holds a BSc in Philosopy and Economics from LSE. Before joining STICERD, she worked in the investment banking divisions of Citigroup and Credit Suisse.
Kaitlyn Zhao
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: k.y.zhao@lse.ac.uk
Kaitlyn is a pre-doctoral research assistant in CEP, working under Steve Machin, Jeffrey Grogger, and Matteo Sandi on the impact of permanent school exclusion on youth crime in England. Her research focuses on the economics of education and the economics of crime.
Kaitlyn holds an MSc in Economics from Oxford, and a BA in Economics and Politics from Cornell.