CURRICULUM VITAE
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I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute for Social Research. I am also a research affiliate at the Center for Educational Leadership and Excellence (CELE) at Stockholm School of Economics, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, and the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS). To download the latest version of my CV, click here.

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Degrees​

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• Ph.D. in Economics, Uppsala University, 2021

• M.Sc. in Economics, Uppsala University, 2013

• B.A. with High Honors in Economics, Oberlin College, 2010

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Research visits​

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• LGBTQ+ Policy Lab, Center for Research on Inequality and Health, January–March 2025
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
  Host: Kitt Carpenter
   

• Institute for Policy Research, September 2015–June 2016
  Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  Host: David Figlio​

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Awards, scholarships, and grants

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• Swedish Research Council, project grant for When Low Grades Become High Stakes: How Upper-Secondary Eligibility Requirements and Introductory Programs Shape Ineligible Students’ Work and Welfare​. Project leader. Co-applicant with Iman Dadgar and Ema Demi. 6 598 483 SEK, awarded in November 2025. Also awarded 4 916 000 SEK from FORTE, but declined due to overlapping content.
   

• FORTE, project grant for Transgender Youths’ Labor Market Entry and Exclusion: Hormones, Legal Gender Recognition, and Social Vulnerability. Co-applicant together with Ylva Moberg (main applicant) and Emma von Essen (co-applicant). 4 995 000 SEK, awarded in October 2025.
   

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, research grant for Transgender youth in Sweden: Insights on demographic changes, healthcare patterns, and educational experiences from two decades of population-based data, 128 600 SEK, awarded in October 2024.
   

• Swedish Research Council, project grant for The labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning in Sweden. Co-applicant with Emma von Essen (main applicant) and Ylva Moberg, 4 535 000 SEK, awarded in November 2022.
   

• Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Handelsbanken, Wallander scholarship for postdoctoral research in economics, 1 725 000 SEK, awarded in December 2021.
   

• Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), project grant for Peer gender composition and student outcomes in high school. Co-applicant with Aino-Maija Aalto (main applicant), 600 000 SEK, awarded in December 2020.
   

• Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation at Handelsbanken, Hedelius scholarship for research visit at Northwestern University, 485 000 SEK, awarded in December 2014.
   

• Oberlin College, Department of Economics, Comfort Starr Prize in Economics, awarded in May 2010 for meritorious scholarly work throughout undergraduate studies.

 

External seminars and conferences
 

• 2025: GSA 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting (Boston, MA); APHA 2025 Annual Meeting (Washington DC); EEA Congress 2025 (Bordeaux); LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Work-In-Progress Session (Vanderbilt University); ASSA 2025 (San Francisco, CA)
   

• 2024: Economics Seminar (Masaryk University); SUDA Demographic Colloquium Series (Stockholm University); FORTE Research Network - LGBTQ+ Workshop (Stockholm University); SOLE 2024 (Portland, OR)
   

• 2023: 5th Stockholm-Uppsala Education Economics Workshop (IFAU); EALE 2023 (Prague); Interdisciplinary Workshop on Inequalities in Working Life (UCLS and Uppsala University)
   

• 2022: 3rd IAB-LISER Conference: Labour markets during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (Institute for Employment Research, Germany)
   

• 2021: Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Life-changing Transitions in the LGBTQ+ Community (Stockholm University); EEA/ESEM Annual Congress (virtual)
   

• 2020: AEA Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series (virtual); UCLS Annual Meeting Flash Talks; SUDSWEC Conference (Uppsala University)

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Teaching
 

• Guest lecture in The Economics of Work and Family (Bachelor's level), September 2024
  Department of Economics, Amherst College
   

• Teaching assistant in Mathematical Methods (Ph.D. level), 2014–2017
  Department of Economics, Uppsala University

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Professional activities and services

Refereeing:

Contemporary Economic Policy, Economics of Education Review (2x), Education Economics, Fores, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Labour Economics, The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

Other:

• Co-organizer of the AME/GAINS seminar series, SOFI, Stockholm Uni., 2024–present

• Co-editor of SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics, 2023–present

• Organizing Committee for UCLS Workshop on Inequalities in Working Life, 2023–2025

• Co-editor of newsletter for European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists, 2022–present

• Member of Steering Committee, European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists, 2021–present

• Organizer of Brown Bag Seminar Series, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2017–2020

• Board member of PhD Student Association, Department of Economics, Uppsala University,  2013–2020

• PhD representative for Work Environment Group, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2018–2020

• Vice president of Nationalekonomiska föreningen, 2014–2017

• Member of Uppsala University team at Econometric Games in Amsterdam, 2013

• President of Pareto Uppsala, non-profit organization, 2013

• Board member of Pareto Uppsala, non-profit organization, 2012

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