Pre-doctoral RA Coordinator: Michael Gmeiner
A I B I C I F I G I J I L I M I N I O I P I R I S I T I V I Z
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.
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.
Angela Gales
Research Assistant, CEP
Email: a.gales@lse.ac.uk
Angela is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the CEP, working under Daniel Sturm on the CEP Urban research programme. Her research interests focus on urban economics, in particular, transport systems, housing and neighbourhood sorting.
Angela holds Master’s degree in Public Administration from LSE and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from Sciences Po.
Mukul Gupta
Research Assistant, CFM
Email: m.gupta48@lse.ac.uk
Mukul is a pre-doctoral research assistant in the Centre for Macroeconomics.
Mukul holds an MSc in Economics from Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining LSE, he worked as a research associate and analyst at JP Morgan.
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.
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.
Saipremnath Muthukumaran
Research Assistant, STICERD
Email: s.muthukumaran@lse.ac.uk
Saipremnath is a pre-doctoral research assistant working under Mike Callen on the Public Economics and Development research programmes. His research interests include climate change, land markets, firms, and the rule of law.
Saipremnath holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Mathematics and Economics from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India. Before joining LSE, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Warwick and as a Legislative Research Assistant to an Indian MP.
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).
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.