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💠 CURRENT :

Assistant Professor (non-tenure) at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Economics Department, 2023 - present

Postdoctoral researcher on the project of EqualStrength, 2023 - present

CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellow (NY, USA), 2020 - present

Team member of National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Disease and Systemic Risks (SYRI), 2022 - present

💠 Education:

PhD, Economics and Econometrics, CERGE-EI, Prague - 2023

MA, Economics and Econometrics, CERGE-EI, Prague - 2018

MA, Mathematical Economics, University of Tartu, Tartu - 2016

BA (Hons), Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul - 2014

💠 OTHER AFFILIATION:

Visiting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (host, Prof. Albert Saiz) - 2019-2020

💠 Awards:

Young Economist of the Year (2021) - 1st place. Awarded Paper: Checkmate! Losing with Borders, Winning with Centers. The case of European Integration.

💠 Conferences:

Second Congress of Central and East European Studies, at German Association for East European Studies, Berlin [Forthcoming]

63rd ERSA Congress, Regional Science Dialogues for Peace and Sustainable Development, Azores [Forthcoming]

16th Joint IOS/APB/EACES Summer Academy on Central and Eastern Europe, at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg) [Forthcoming]

Large Language Models and Machine Learning for Unstructured Data Seminar, organized by IESE Business School, University of Navarra [Forthcomimg]

Borders, Politics and Policies: Using Data to Power Border Research, at Borders in Globalization Lab’s (BIG Lab), Jean Monnet Network, European Parliament, Strasbourg [Forthcoming]

SYRI Conference at Charles University, Prague

EEA-ESEM 2023 Congress, at Barcelona School of Economics

Agglomeration and Social Networks Research Lab, Invited Seminar Series

Aix-Marseille Universit ́e, Invited Seminar Series

Charles University, Faculty of Law, Economics Department, Invited Seminar Series

IAB/ZEW-conference Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market, at Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg

30th Anniversary of Maastricht Treaty; the Past, Present, and Future of European Integration. at Studio Europa Maastricht and Maastricht University

37th National Conference of Labour Economics, University of Salerno, Special theme on Labour market in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis

12th ifo Dresden Workshop on Regional Economics, at ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich Dresden Branch

EEA-ESEM 2022 Congress, at Bocconi University

10th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments in Europe, at Lisbon School of Economics and Management

17th annual conference - Warsaw International Economic Meeting 2022, at University of Warsaw

15th Australasian Trade Workshop, at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

28th Young Economist of the Year Award , at Czech Economic Society (1st place)

13th international conference ”Challenges of Europe”, Split - Croatia

ERSA Summer School on Cities and Regions in the Process of Transformation, University of Katowice, Poland

💠 Skills:

Statistical Packages: R, Stata, Python/Scrapy, QGIS

💠 Languages:

Georgian (Native); English, Turkish (Advanced); Russian (Intermediate)