Sylvia is a PhD Economics candidate in the Department of Economics at LSE. Her primary research interests are network theory, development economics and industrial organisation.

She holds an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from LSE. Before joining the Department, she was a predoctoral research assistant to Xavier Jaravel in the STICERD Public Economics group, and a research assistant at the International Growth Centre at LSE. Formerly, she was employed as a senior economic consultant at Edgeworth Economics.

Sylvia is a co-investigator on a project on electrification in rural Zambia with Niclas Moneke and Torsten Figueiredo Walter at the University of Oxford, and a visiting researcher at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where she is working on a theoretical model for shipping network congestion.

Research interests 
Network theory, Development economics, Industrial organisation