I joined the Department of Agricultural Economics of Purdue University in August 2023. My research focuses on the economics of international agricultural/food supply chains and trade under uncertainty. For instance, how Global Value Chain (GVC) participation in agriculture relates to consumer and producer welfare, and how regulation affects input sourcing of agri-food firms.
Before joining Purdue, I was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Minnesota and a Postdoc at the University of Göttingen, where his work focused on measuring environmental performance of food production systems, agricultural market analysis, and statistical software development in causal time series analysis.
In assignments outside of academia, I designed Food Balance Sheet imputation methodologies at the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), developed trade- mode prediction models at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCAD), gauged a hypothetical EU-Africa trade agreement at the German association for cooperation and Development (GIZ), and used remote sensing to estimate the global potential of sustainable biofuel production on marginal land for aprivate sector company (VWP).
Education
2020 PhD Economics, University of Goettingen
2016 MA Development Economics, University of Goettingen
2013 BSc Economics and Social Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano