Our people
Led by our principal investigators, the SoDa Labs team is passionate about using our data-driven social science insights to create real-world impact.

Klaus Ackermann
Lecturer
Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics

Simon Angus
Associate Professor
Department of Economics

Sascha Becker
Professor
Department of Economics

Ricardo Dahis
Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics

Claudio Labanca
Lecturer
Department of Economics

Nathan Lane
Associate Professor
University of Oxford

Weijia Li
Lecturer
Department of Economics

Krisztina Orban
Postdoctoral Fellow
NBER

Laura Puzzello
Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics

Paul Raschky
Professor
Department of Economics

Nandini Anantharama
Research Fellow
SoDa Labs

Ashley Andrews
PhD Student
Econometrics and Business Statistics

Satyabrat Borgohain
Platform Development & Operations
SoDa Labs

Yashdeep Singh Dahiya
Research Assistant

Alireza Kafaee Fanaeepour
Research Assistant

Priscila Grecov
PhD Student
Faculty of Information Technology

Patrick Healy
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Cynthia Huang
PhD Student
Econometrics and Business Statistics

Nurlan Jahangirli
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Chun C. Kok
PhD Student
Department of Economics

David Kreitmeir
Research Fellow
SoDa Labs

Marco Lecci
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Rhys Murrian
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Luke Newman
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Lachlan O'Neil
Research Fellow
SoDa Labs

Sebastian S. Schmidt
PhD Student
University of Göttingen

Felix Schulz
Research Assistant
SoDa Labs

Van Anh Tran
PhD student
SoDa Labs

Cheongyeon Won
PhD Student
Department of Economics

Tze Yong
Master of Economics (Research Option)
Monash University

Ivan Yotzov
PhD Student
University of Warwick

Ashani Amarasinghe
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
University of Sydney

Maxim Ananyev
University of Melbourne

Elliott Ash
ETH Zurich

Kathryn Baragwanath
Australian Catholic University

Jeanet Bentzen
Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen

Richard Bluhm
Leibniz University

Martin Huber
University of Fribourg

Umair Khalil
Monash University

Johannes Kunz
Monash University

Paul Lajbcygier
Monash University

Caroline Le Pennec
HEC Montréal

Alyx Mark
Wesleyan University

Grant R. McDermott
University of Oregon

Penny Mealy
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
World Bank

Matthew Olckers
University of New South Wales

Arianna Ornaghi
University of Warwick

Bhoomija Ranjan
Monash University

Mark Schelker
Full Professor
University of Fribourg

Denni Tommasi
Monash University

Meithy Zaman
Deakin University

Minalee Busi
Project Officer
Climateworks

Hayley Lock
Consultant
Energetics

Chris Hyland
Graduate Student
Oxford University

Natasha Watkins
Graduate Student
UCLA

Kiranmayi Vadlamudi
Research Analyst
Aboriginal Housing