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🔸 Experience:
Research Fellow at European Research University (ERUNI), 2024 - present
Postdoctoral researcher on the project of EqualStrength, 2023 - 2024
Assistant Professor (non-tenure) at Charles University, Faculty of Law, Economics Department, 2023 - 2024
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
Visiting Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Center for Real Estate (host: Prof. Albert Saiz)- 2020
MA, Economics and Econometrics, CERGE-EI, Prague - 2018
MA, Mathematical Economics, University of Tartu, Tartu - 2016
BA (Hons), Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul - 2014
🔸 Awards:
Young Economist of the Year (2021) - 1st place. Awarded Paper: Checkmate! Losing with Borders, Winning with Centers. The case of European Integration.
🔸 Conferences:
2024
DGO Congress of Central and East European Studies, CEEcon24, at German Association for East European Studies, Berlin
63rd ERSA Congress, Regional Science Dialogues for Peace and Sustainable Development, Azores
Large Language Models and Machine Learning for Unstructured Data Seminar, organized by IESE Business School, University of Navarra
Borders, Politics and Policies: Using Data to Power Border Research, at Borders in Globalization Lab’s (BIG Lab), Jean Monnet Network, European Parliament, Strasbourg
SYRI Conference at Charles University, Prague
2023
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
2022
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
2021
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
🔸 Statistical Softwares:
R, Python, QGIS, Stata
🔸 Statistical Skills:
AI/LLMs, Scrapy, Selenium, Geospatial tools/GIS, Image and audio processing tools
🔸 Languages:
Georgian (Native); English, Turkish (Advanced); Russian (Intermediate); Czech (Survival)