I am a 5th-year PhD candidate in Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris, supervised by Prof. Thomas Åstebro. I am also a Research Fellow at the ION Management Science Lab in Paris and an external researcher at France Travail.

My research lies at the intersection of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, with a focus on the application of AI to evaluate startup potential in accelerator programs.

In Spring 2026 I visited the Financial Markets Group at LSE, hosted by Prof Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe.

I am one of the founders and organizers of the HEC PhD Economics Conference and the Natural Language in Economics Online Seminar.

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Research

Job Market Paper

• “Human vs. AI in Startup Evaluation: Evidence from HEC Incubateur” Draft out soon!

Working Papers

• “Decomposing Venture Evaluation: Learning about Belief Formation” with Thomas Åstebro and Francesco Giordano R&R Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
• “Accuracy and uncertainty in venture selection: the roles of experience and complexity” with Thomas Åstebro and Francesco Giordano Draft out soon!.

Work in Progress

• “Employment Creation through Psychological Entrepreneurship Training” with Thomas Åstebro, Marcos Balmaceda, Bruno Crépon, Mona Mensman, Naja Pape and Mathis Schulte RCT on-going in collaboration with France Travail.
• “The impact of role models on gender stereotypical beliefs about educational choices.” with Adam Altmejd, Thomas Åstebro, Mon Mensman, Ali Mohammadi and Karl Wennberg pre-registered RCT on-going.
• “The Impact of Academic Accelerators on Startup Performance”

Pre-PhD Publications

• “Quantitative Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Delegating Certain Tasks regarding the Implementation of Union Programmes 2021–2027 to the Executive Agencies” with Gabor Katay, Matteo Grigoletto, and Ian Vollbracht JRC Technical Report 121255, 2020

News and Events

• Next June we will have the 2026 edition of the HEC PhD Economics Conference. Visit our website for more information.
• Every two weeks we have the Natural Language in Economics Online Seminar where students and postdocs can present their work on topics that are broadly related to language in the context of economics, with a theoretical, methodological and/or empirical focus.

Seminars and Conferences

• 2026: DRUID26(Upcoming), CCC 2026 Doctoral Conference (Upcoming), BSE Summer Forum: Economics of Science and Innovation (Upcoming), AI Plus Management Doctoral Consortium (Upcoming), Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Workshop on Science Funding and Non-Market Allocation Mechanisms
• 2025: Tor Vergata Ph.D. Conference in Economics, NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp,Bayesian Entrepreneurship Conference.
• 2024: Foundations of Utility and Risk, CREST PhD Brownbag Seminar, “La Strada” Bocconi PhD Seminar.
• 2022: Field Experiments in Economics and Business.

Teaching Experience

HEC Paris — Students’ evaluations

• Lecturer, Microeconomics (Grande École) — 2022, 2024
  • 2024 Best Microeconomics Teacher
• TA, Managerial Economics (MBA) — 2025, 2026
• TA, Microeconomics (Grande École) — 2023, 2024
  
  

Politecnico di Milano — Students’ evaluations

• TA, Microeconomics (B.Sc) — 2021
• TA, International Economics (M.Sc) — 2020