Students & Postdocs

Current graduate students

Previous doctoral students

  • Justin Hadad (MPhil, DPhil, 2022-2026), first placement: postdoc at Stanford University.
  • Nianzu Xiong (DPhil, co-supervisor with Alan Beggs, 2023-2026), entrepreneur.
  • Philipp Trammell (D.Phil. co-supervisor with Ian Jewitt, 2022-2024), first placement: postdoc at Stanford University.
  • Verena Wiedemann (D.Phil. co-supervisor with Chris Woodruff, 2021-2023), first placement: IFC, Washington, D.C.
  • Vatsal Khandelwal (D.Phil. co-supervisor with Stefan Dercon, 2018-2021), first placement: Junior Research Fellowship in Global Well-Being, Merton College, University of Oxford. Now: University of Exeter.
  • George Charlson (D.Phil. co-supervisor with Mark Armstrong, 2017-2020), “Essays in Strategic Decision-Making in Complex Environments”, placement: Postdoc at the University of Cambridge (INET and Christ’s College). Now: Keystone.

Previous postdocs

I have hosted some wonderful postdocs in the economics department.

  • Toan Le (2024-2026, funded by the ERC; now at University of Helsinski)
  • Lily Xu (2024-2025, funded by the LCNR; now at Columbia)
  • Young Kim (2024-2025, funded by the LCNR; now at the University of Florida)
  • Simon Jantschgi (2023-2025, funded by the ERC; now at University of Zürich)

Supervision, academic visit and research assistantship requests

I’m happy to supervise undergraduate or graduate students at Oxford.
I am afraid I cannot offer any supervision or research assistantship positions to students outside of Oxford. If you’re thinking of applying to Oxford as a graduate student and think I might be a good prospective supervisor, simply mention my name on the application form and explain why I might be a good match. If you are a doctoral student who would like to visit, please ask your supervisor to write me an email. Any postdoc opportunities will be advertised on the Department jobs website or the University jobs website. Please accept my apologies for not answering every request individually.