Grants & Awards

Competitive Grants (as Principal Investigator)

Assessing the Impact of Gender-Equal Parental Leave Reforms in Spain

Caixa Social Research Call 2025  ·  Universidad Loyola Andalucía  ·  €95,000  ·  2026–2027

Simulation of Net Childcare Costs in EUROMOD-HHoT

European Commission (EC-JRC/SVQ/2025/VLVP/1018)  ·  €13,500  ·  May–Oct 2025

COVID-19 support measures and their effects on mitigating longer-term consequences for business, work and employment

Eurofound Tender 2023/6179.2/10  ·  €15,000  ·  Nov 2023–Feb 2024

Consultancy & Non-Competitive Projects

Spatial Economics of Income Distribution Across Borders (SPIN)

Luxembourg Research Fund  ·  with Denisa Sologon  ·  €792,000  ·  3 years

Revision of the Economic Implications Analysis Paper — Oman (follow-up)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)  ·  €5,760  ·  Apr 2026

Revision of Population Scenarios and Economic Implications Analysis Paper

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)  ·  €12,000  ·  Sep–Oct 2025

Projecting the Net Fiscal Impact of Migration in the EU

DG EMPL / DG ECFIN / DG HOME, European Commission  ·  Coordinator  ·  2021

Modelling of Fairness and Resilience of Tax and Social Benefits Systems

DG EMPL, European Commission  ·  Principal Investigator  ·  2021–2022

Awards & Recognition

Research Excellence Recognition 2024–2025

Universidad Loyola Andalucía  ·  March 2026  ·  Awarded in recognition of outstanding research activity during the academic year 2024–2025

Erwin Wenzl Award 2020

Erwin Wenzl Foundation  ·  January 2021  ·  Outstanding PhD thesis "Essays on the Econometric Analysis of European Labour Markets"

Best Poster Award — EALE 2017

European Association of Labour Economists  ·  2017  ·  "Gender wage gap and the role of skills: Evidence from PIAAC dataset"

Young Economist Award 2015

Austrian Economic Association (NOeG)  ·  2015  ·  with M. Köppl-Turyna and D. Kucsera — "Employment effects of minimum wages in Europe revisited"

Premio Extraordinario Doctor 2021

Vienna University of Economics and Business  ·  June 2021  ·  Outstanding doctoral thesis