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EDUCATION
           PhD in Economics, European University Institute                                                                                                                                                                           2017
           MRes in Economics, European University Institute                                                                                                                                                                        2012 
           MSc in Economics (with Merit), London School of Economics                                                                                                                                                 2011  
           BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics ( 1st Hons.), University of Strathclyde                                                                                            2010

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
            Post-doc Researcher, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics                                                        2020-present 
            Assistant Professor, Universidad Loyola Andalucía                                                                                                                                                                       2020

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 

• Loss of structural balance in stock markets, with E. Ferreira, S. Orbe, J. Ascorbebeitia and E. Estrada, Scientific reports 11.1 (2021): 1-10.
• Waving goodbye? The determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe, with M. Portos and J. Vourdas, Regional Studies 52.2 (2018), 197-211
• The Best of Both Worlds: Developing Equation-Based Models into Agent-Based Models, with Gräbner, C., Bale, C. S., Furtado, B. A, Gentile, J. E., Henderson, H., Lipari, F. Computational Economics (2017): 1-20
• Social Institutions and Economic Inequality: Modeling the onset of the Kuznets curve, with C. Bale, B. Alves Furtado, J.E. Gentile, C. Gräbner, H. Henderson and F. Lipari. Institute of Applied Economic Research (2015), Discussion Paper 204

  WORK IN PROGRESS

• Incorporating traditional beliefs to improve maternal and child health outcomes in Guinea-Bissau, with A. Coutts, T. Molina Millán and P. Vicente.
• Disseminating market information via mobile phones to cashew producers, an impact evaluation in Guinea-Bissau, with G. Schinaia, S. Schaber, D. Tavares and A. Mendonça.
• Does group size and gender matter for performance in skill diverse teams? Experimental evidence, with S. Aman-Rana
• Gender, information exchange and choice over co-workers: experimental evidence, with S. Aman-Rana, Clement Minaudier and Shamyla Chaudry.
• Vulnerabilities and solutions for Mozambican enterprises in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, with E. Daniel, V. Cavalcante and S. Paiva.

POLICY PUBLICATIONS

• Building forward better for business in Guinea-Bissau, UNDP 2021, with S. Schaber.
• A new Market Information System might mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on farm-gate prices for cashew producers in Guinea-Bissau, PEDL C-19 note 2020, with S. Schaber and G. Schinaia.
• Angola: Risk-sensitive Budget Review, UNDRR 2020, with T. Martínez Zavala.
• Guinea-Bissau: Risk sensitive Budget Review, UNDRR 2020, with T. Martínez Zavala.
• Impact of Economic Structure and Policy on Poverty Incidence and Distribution, with T. J. Correia, F. Y. Kumah and B. Na Salú, IMF Guinea-Bissau Selected Issues (2017), chapter 4.
• Social Institutions and Economic Inequality: Modelling the onset of the Kuznets curve, with C. Bale, B. Alves Furtado, J. E. Gentile, C. Gräbner, H. Henderson and F. Lipari. Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (2015), Discussion Paper 204.

                                                                                        
WORK  EXPERIENCE
              2018 -                  Founder and Director, Bissau Economics Lab            
              2020 -                  Assistant Professor, Loyola University Andalucía, Economics Department 
              2020/21             Consultant, UNDP 
              2019/21             Founder and Co-Director, Bissau Analytics
              2018/19             Consultant, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
              2016/18             Overseas Development Institute Fellow, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Guinea-Bissau
              2017                     Short term consultant, World Bank
              2016                     University Lecturer, Lorenzo de Medici Institute
              2014                     Economist (Intern), International Labour Organization
              2009                     Research Assistant to Professor Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde

REFEREE FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
              Complexity, PLOS One
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