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Economist working at the intersection of AI, industrial organization, and competition policy. Research and advisory work focus on digital markets, market design, energy platforms, and AI regulation, using game theory, empirical methods, and machine learning.
General Information
Positions
2026 – present
Managing Economist and AI Lead
Junior partner (shareholder) and member of the executive board.
Leading work on AI, digital markets, and competition policy, combining industrial organization and computational methods in applied and research projects.
2022 – 2025
Senior Economist
Economic analysis in competition, digital-markets, and energy projects.
2025 – present
Member, ASCOLA Working Group AI/Algorithms
Interdisciplinary work on the legal and policy implications of AI and algorithmic systems in competition law.
2022 – present
Collaborator
Research collaboration on formal and computational approaches to governance, digital systems, and market design.
2024 – present
Affiliated Researcher
Research on AI and agent-based models, with applications to energy markets.
2024 – 2025
Global Fellow
Research on foundation models and competition policy.
2018 – 2024
Lecturer
Courses in industrial organization, digitalization, and competition policy.
2018 – 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research on algorithmic pricing and competition in digital markets, funded by the SNSF grant “Pricing in a Digital World.”
Research Visits
2020 – 2021
Visiting Scholar
Invited by Prof. Justus Haucap.
Education
2013 – 2018
Ph.D. in Economics and Finance
Summa cum laude — dissertation Essays in Industrial Organization (supervisor: Prof. Stefan Bühler).
2011 – 2012
M.Sc. in Economics
With distinction.
2008 – 2011
B.Sc. in Business and Economics
Grants and Prizes
2024 – 2025
The Market for Foundation Models
CHF 50,000 (PI).
2024 – 2025
DMA-effects in Switzerland
CHF 30,000 (co-PI).
2022 – 2025
ChartEP: Charting Energy Platforms and Market Outcomes under Varying Policy Measures
CHF 281,215 (PI).
2022
Young Scholar Award
2021 – 2022
Computational Learning in Economic Games
CHF 35,000 (co-PI).
2021 – 2022
The Competitive Effects of Pricing Software Systems
CHF 51,555 (co-PI).
2018 – 2022
Pricing in a Digital World
CHF 500,000, SNSF grant no. 178836. Co-wrote the proposal; postdoctoral researcher on the project.
Recent Talks and Presentations
2026
EURO Working Group on Revenue Management & Pricing workshop
2026
Panellist, “The Next Wave of Tech Enforcement: Global Trends in Regulating Platforms and Algorithms”
2026
“Market Power and Platform Design in Decentralized Electricity Trading”
2026
“Algorithmic Pricing in Practice and Collusion”
2026
Invited talk on the DMA’s impact for Switzerland
2026
“Economic perspectives on market power in AI markets”
2026
Invited guest lecture, course “Digitale Ökonomie” (Prof. R. Kesler)
2025
“Simulating local energy platforms using multi-agent deep hedging”
2025
“Optimale Strategien für dezentrale Prosumenten auf lokalen Energiehandelsplattformen”
2025
“Multi-Agent Deep Hedging zur Simulation dezentraler Prosumenten”
2025
“Effizienzverteidigung in der Praxis”
Publications & Applied Work
The full list of journal articles, conference papers, and working papers is on the Research page.
Selected advisory and applied projects are on the Applied Work page.