Curriculum vitae
Academic and research appointments
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, STICERD, LSE
Joint research programme with UC Berkeley focused on health inequality and health-insurance choices using linked Dutch administrative data.
Teaching Fellow, Department of Economics, LSE
Microeconomic Principles I; Course Manager in 2024.
Research Assistant, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Applied research using Twitter API and Orbis/Bureau van Dijk data.
Research Assistant, STICERD, LSE
Applied economics research before commencing the PhD.
Education
MRes and PhD in Economics, LSE
PhD awarded 2026. Department of Economics Scholarship.
MSc Economics, University College London
Distinction.
Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), University of Melbourne
Economics, First Class Honours.
Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne
Atmospheric Science.
Other professional experience
Manager, Deloitte Access Economics, Australia
Applied economic analysis, project management, and policy research for government, business, and not-for-profit clients. Continued on a limited basis during the PhD.
Research
“Explaining the Atomistic versus Ecological Fallacies in SES–Health Gradients,” with Johannes Spinnewijn. AEA Papers and Proceedings 116 (2026), 150–155.
“The Lifecycle Formation of Health Inequality,” with Kaveh Danesh, Jonathan Kolstad, and Johannes Spinnewijn. September 2026. NBER Working Paper 32577; CEPR Discussion Paper 19160. Earlier version circulated as “The Chronic Disease Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle.”
“Zooming in on Health: Using High-Resolution Spatial Data to Understand the Geography of Health Inequality.”
“Sources of Socioeconomic Inequality in Cancer Mortality,” with Kaveh Danesh, Mieke Aarts, Jonathan Kolstad, and Johannes Spinnewijn.
“The Social Determinants of Mental Health,” with Canishk Naik and Johannes Spinnewijn.
“Superstars of the Creator Economy.”
Selected presentations
AEA Annual Meeting
Rockwool Foundation Berlin Conference
NBER Summer Institute; NBER Aging Conference; London Business School Workshop on Health and the UK Macroeconomy
Dutch Health Econometrics Workshop
Funding and awards
STICERD Research Grant
W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award
Methods and tools
Stata, R, Python, SQL, and PySpark; event studies, difference-in-differences, fixed effects, survival analysis, decompositions, and spatial methods; secure administrative-data and reproducible research workflows.
ONS/HMRC Accredited Researcher; experience with Statistics Netherlands (CBS) microdata.
Australian citizen · Unrestricted right to work in the UK · References available on request