Social Science Researchers

Alaa Abdelfattah, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aaa10568@nyu.edu
Education: BA Middlebury College; MA and PhD University of California, Davis

Research Interests: Local labor markets; inequality; urban economics; market concentration; monopsony

Amar Ahmad, Research Scientist / Biostatistician Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amar.ahmad@nyu.edu
Education: German Diplom University of Munich (LMU); PhD University of Munich (LMU)

Research Interests: Application of statistics in medical research; Multivariate statistical strategies for data mining; ...

Christian Aleman-Pericon, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cda8700@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidad Privada Boliviana; MA Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; PhD Universitat Autonoma ...

Research Interests: Family economics, growth and development, inequality and policy

Vladimir Babushkin, Data Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vb2474@nyu.edu
Education: BA Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, MA State University of Moldova

Research Interests: Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence

Gabriela Stockler Barbosa, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gsb8028@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Research Interests: Social and economic networks; finance; theory

Alexander Barron, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: atb8710@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of New Mexico; PhD Indiana University

Research Interests: Culture; cultural evolution; computational social science; social physics; data science; complex sys...

Minda Belete, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mindabelete@nyu.edu
Education: BA, Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Computational Socioeconomics, Urban Economics, Labor Economics, Migration, Gender Research, Computat...

Tizié Bene, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tb3442@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Aix-Marseille University

Research Interests: Network Economics; Game theory; Development

Federico Bernardini , Associate Director Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bernardini@nyu.edu
Education: Master in Physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza; PhD in Astrophysics University of Rome, To...

Nitin Kumar Bharti, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nkb2039@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, MA Paris School of Economics; PhD Paris School of Ec...

Research Interests: Economic inequality, education economics, conflict economics, India and China

Perry Carter, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pjc504@nyu.edu
Education: BA (Hons) University of Canterbury; MA Princeton University; PhD Princeton University

Research Interests: Comparative politics; Post-Communist Politics; Political Networks; Historical Political Economy; Leg...

Sumit Goel, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sumit.goel@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Delhi Technological University; MSQE Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi); PhD California Inst...

Research Interests: Game theory, contests, mechanism design, social choice, CS-econ

Aashish Gupta, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aashish.gupta@nyu.edu
Education: MA IIT Madras; PhD University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests: Demography, development, environment, inequality

Yooseon Hwang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yooseon.hwang@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of California, Berkeley; MA University of Virginia; PhD University of Virginia

Research Interests: Urban and spatial economics; economic geography

Moritz Janas, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: moritz.janas@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Mannheim, MSc University of Cologne, PhD University of Konstanz

Research Interests: Game Theory; Experimental Economics; Organizational Economics

Wonjeong Jeong, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wonjeong.jeong@nyu.edu
Education: BA Yonsei University; MA Cornell University; PhD Cornell University

Research Interests: Gender disparities in the labor market; family demography

Lozano Montaña Lina, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lina.lozano@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Universidad del Rosario, MSc Universidad del Rosario, MSc Maastricht University, PhD Maastricht ...

Research Interests: Behavioral and Experimental Economics; Gender Economics; Applied Microeconomics

Yusuf Magiya, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ym1293@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Columbia University

Research Interests: Political economy of development; distributive politics; identity politics; Middle East politics

Aseem Mahajan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: akm477@nyu.edu
Education: AB, Princeton University; PhD, Harvard University

Research Interests: Environmental politics; climate change; adaptation; energy; geoengineering

Thomas Marlow, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: twm9710@nyu.edu
Education: BA Illinois Wesleayn University; MA Brown University; PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Environmental Sociology; Urban Sociology; Inequality; Social Networks; Computational Social Science

Maximilian Meduna, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: meduna@nyu.edu
Education: MA (International Affairs), Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Postgraduate Dip...

Mayada Oudah, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mayada@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Masdar Institute of Science & Technology; MSc, The British University in Dubai; BSc, Al Ain Uni...

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Multi-Agent Systems; Human-Machine Interactions; Social Science; Social Rob...

Hyoeun Park, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hp2821@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sogang University; MA The Ohio State University; PhD The Ohio State University

Research Interests: Experimental economics, decision theory, game theory

Laurent Pauwels, Research Scholar Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laurent.pauwels@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Geneva Graduate Institute

Research Interests: Statistical modeling; forecasting; financial risk; global value chains; international macroeconomics

Cem Peker, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cem.peker@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tinbergen Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Research Interests: Decision theory, behavioral economics, experimental economics

Ashley Perry, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ashley.perry@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Economics, London Business School

Research Interests: Experimental economics, behavioral economics, organizational economics

Monika Pompeo, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mp6413@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Nottingham

Research Interests: Behavioural Economics, Experimental Economics, Nudges

Lixia Ren, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lr3405@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of International Business and Economics; MA Peking University; PhD University of Notre...

Research Interests: Structural transformation; economic growth

Dario Alberto Romero Fonseca, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: drf312@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Economics (2010), BA in Political Science (2011), and a MA in Economics (2012) from Universida...

Research Interests: Economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics in developing economies, particularl...

Maria Sahakyan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms13502@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Yerevan State University, MSc Masdar Institute, PhD Khalifa University

Research Interests: Ethnic diversity, explainable artificial intelligence

Koyel Sarkar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: koyel.sarkar@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Catholic University of Louvain (Demography); MPhil and MA Jawaharlal Nehru University (Populatio...

Research Interests: Demography of India; couple formation; marriage; lowest-low fertility in developing states; ethnicit...

Birga M Schumpe, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: birga.schumpe@nyu.edu
Education: PhD

Nishtha Sharma, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nishtha.sharma@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Delhi; MA Delhi School of Economics; PhD University of California Irvine

Research Interests: Discrimination; Gender; Social Norms; Beliefs and Preferences

Yi Sheng, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: y.sheng@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Huazhong University of Science and Technology; MA Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; ...

Research Interests: Other-regarding preferences; ethnic discrimination; costly signaling

Robert Stuber, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: robert.stueber@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Hohenheim, MSc University of Hohenheim, PhD Technical University Berlin and WZB Be...

Research Interests: Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics; Labor Economics

Samir Sweida-Metwally, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ss18347@nyu.edu
Education: BSc (Honours) Brunel University; MSc London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); MSc Uni...

Research Interests: Labor markets; access to work; job quality; disclosure; Muslim penalty; ethno-religious penalties; I...

Yuki Tamura, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yuki.tamura@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Queensland; PhD University of Rochester

Research Interests: Microeconomic theory; market design; social choice; political economy

Orsola Torrisi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ot2086@nyu.edu
Education: BA King's College London, MSc London School of Economics, PhD London School of Economics

Research Interests: Demography, armed conflict, family violence, survey methods

Blair Joseph Welsh, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: blairwelsh@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Strathclyde; MA University of Essex; PhD University of Essex

Research Interests: Armed violence; climate change; development

Yufeng Wu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yw9042@nyu.edu
Education: Bsc City, University of London; Msc University College London; PhD University College London

Research Interests: Migration; China; family; housing; social integration; social mobility

Jeffrey Zeidel, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jrz8904@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of California, Berkeley; PhD California Institute of Technology

Research Interests: Behavioral economics; experimental economics; game theory; microeconomic theory;