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People

The lab & its network

Economists, statisticians, computer scientists and business scholars across Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Germany and Switzerland. Select any name to read more.

Core team
Magnus Lodefalk

Magnus Lodefalk

Associate professor; co-director
Örebro University · Ratio · Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Co-director of the AI-Econ Lab. For over a decade worked with longitudinal register data for Swedish firms and workers, studying structural changes and technological adoption.

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Hildegunn Kyvik-Nordås

Hildegunn Kyvik-Nordås

Professor; co-director
Örebro University · Council on Economic Policies · NUPI
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Co-directs the AI-Econ Lab. Works on trade, trade policy and technology issues, focusing on the interaction between trade policy, technology and labour market adjustments.

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Erik Engberg

Erik Engberg

PhD student
Örebro University · Ratio
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Most recently worked as an analyst at Growth Analysis, analysing and reporting on trade, innovation policy, venture capital, entrepreneurship and evaluations of public support to enterprises.

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Mark Granberg

Mark Granberg

Postdoctoral researcher
Statistics Sweden · Örebro University · Ratio
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Analysed the impact of AI on wages, the hiring process of organisations using field experiments, and the role of economic uncertainty on unemployment flows.

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Holger Görg

Holger Görg

Professor
Kiel Institute for the World Economy · IZA
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Professor and head of the research area 'Global Division of Labour' at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn.

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Mark Hellsten

Mark Hellsten

Postdoctoral researcher
University of Tübingen · Ratio · Örebro University
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PhD in economics from Aarhus University, studying AI wage premia, automation and skill changes, and AI and hiring.

Farrukh Javed

Farrukh Javed

Associate professor
Lund University, Department of Statistics
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Research focuses on inference for stochastic models and modern machine learning approaches, applied across various domains.

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Franziska Klügl

Franziska Klügl

Professor
Örebro University
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Background in software engineering for agent-based systems, primarily related to simulation. Taught computer science for almost a decade. Board member of EURAMAS.

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Michael Koch

Michael Koch

Associate professor
Aarhus University · FIND
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Theoretical and empirical research in international economics and labour economics, investigating the impact of globalisation and automation on individual workers and firm performance.

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Michael Lechner

Michael Lechner

Professor of Econometrics; Guest Professor
University of St. Gallen (SEW) · CEPR · Leopoldina
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Professor of Econometrics. Interests in causal machine learning and optimal decision making (policy learning). Most applied work in labour and sports economics.

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Yifan Lyu

Yifan Lyu

Postdoctoral researcher
Örebro University
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PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Research focuses on household and labour economics, using both reduced-form empirical methods and structural modelling.

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Martin Längkvist

Martin Längkvist

Researcher
Örebro University, AASS / Machine Perception and Interaction Lab
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PhD in Information Technology (2015). Research interest in machine learning, deep learning and representation learning from raw sensory data.

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Lydia Löthman

Lydia Löthman

PhD student
Örebro University
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Previously worked at Bloomberg and the Riksbank; studied at Lund University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Natália Monteiro

Natália Monteiro

Associate professor
University of Minho, Portugal
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Labour economist with extensive experience analysing labour earnings and work organisation, with publications in top journals including Labour Economics.

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Giuseppe Pulito

Giuseppe Pulito

Postdoctoral researcher
Rockwool Foundation Berlin · Berlin School of Economics, HU
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Research focuses on labour economics and international trade, studying transformations in the nature of work driven by technological change and globalisation.

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Sarah Schroeder

Sarah Schroeder

Assistant professor
Aarhus University (FIND) · Ratio
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Research at the intersection of international trade and labour economics, with a current focus on the effects of globalisation on labour market outcomes.

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Yaroslav Yakymovych

Yaroslav Yakymovych

Postdoctoral researcher
Uppsala University, Institute for Housing and Urban Research
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Research focuses on labour economics, particularly the labour market effects of technological change and mass layoffs, as well as urban economics.

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Visiting junior researchers
Monisha Punith

Monisha Punith

PhD student
University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Doctoral candidate studying AI, exploring technology adoption, firm strategies, market structure and labour market outcomes using economic modelling, econometrics and machine learning.

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Fredric Skargren

Fredric Skargren

Affiliate researcher; analyst
Örebro University School of Business · Swedish Agency for Digital Government · RIDE
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Research focuses on digital government and how digitalisation in public administration can be assessed, understood and developed, particularly in core government processes.

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Research assistants (2025/2026)
Ashour Disho

Ashour Disho

Research assistant (BSc in Economics)
Ratio · AI-Econ Lab
Joseph Nyajuoga

Joseph Nyajuoga

Research assistant (MSc in Statistics)
AI-Econ Lab
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Builds and maintains the lab's public data tools, including the DAIOE Explorer and the AI in Demand monitor pipeline.

Affiliated researchers & advisors
Mehul Bhatt

Mehul Bhatt

Professor
Örebro University
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Expertise in artificial intelligence, cognitive science (specialising in visuospatial cognition) and human-computer interaction.

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Jonas Grafström

Jonas Grafström

Assistant professor; Vice CEO, Ratio
Luleå University of Technology · Ratio
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Vice CEO at the Ratio Institute and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

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Rashmi Misra

Rashmi Misra

Chief AI Officer
Analog Devices, USA
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Holds a PhD in AI; previously a general manager at Microsoft.

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Miloš N. Mladenović

Miloš N. Mladenović

Associate professor
Aalto University, Finland
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Expertise includes the development, assessment and governance of emerging mobility technologies.

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Federico Pecora

Federico Pecora

Senior manager, applied science; Associate professor
Amazon Robotics, USA · Örebro University
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Expertise in constraint-based reasoning and automated planning and scheduling.

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Radka Sabolova

Radka Sabolova

Method statistician
Statistics Sweden · Örebro University
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PhD in mathematical statistics, with data scientist experience.

Todor Stoyanov

Todor Stoyanov

Associate professor
Örebro University · McMaster University
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Expertise in perception algorithms and reinforcement learning for manipulation.

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Aili Tang

Aili Tang

Senior economist
Swedish Competition Authority · AI-Econ Lab
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Co-investigator in projects on technology and trade.

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Cristina Trenta

Cristina Trenta

Professor of Public Law
Linnaeus University · Halmstad University
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Full professor of Public Law, focusing on the legal implications of artificial intelligence.

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Joakim Wernberg

Joakim Wernberg

Research director
Ratio · Lund University
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PhD in economic geography, with interests in technological and economic change.

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Previous affiliates & visitors

Holger Breinlich

University of Surrey, UK

Anca Cristea

University of Oregon, USA

Sebastian Krakowski

Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden