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.

Magnus Lodefalk
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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.

Hildegunn Kyvik-Nordås
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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.

Erik Engberg
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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.

Mark Granberg
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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.

Holger Görg
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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.

Mark Hellsten
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PhD in economics from Aarhus University, studying AI wage premia, automation and skill changes, and AI and hiring.

Farrukh Javed
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Research focuses on inference for stochastic models and modern machine learning approaches, applied across various domains.

Franziska Klügl
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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.

Michael Koch
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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.

Michael Lechner
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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.

Yifan Lyu
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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.

Martin Längkvist
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PhD in Information Technology (2015). Research interest in machine learning, deep learning and representation learning from raw sensory data.

Lydia Löthman
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Previously worked at Bloomberg and the Riksbank; studied at Lund University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Natália Monteiro
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Labour economist with extensive experience analysing labour earnings and work organisation, with publications in top journals including Labour Economics.

Giuseppe Pulito
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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.

Sarah Schroeder
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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.

Yaroslav Yakymovych
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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.

Monisha Punith
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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.

Fredric Skargren
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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.

Ashour Disho

Joseph Nyajuoga
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Builds and maintains the lab's public data tools, including the DAIOE Explorer and the AI in Demand monitor pipeline.

Mehul Bhatt
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Expertise in artificial intelligence, cognitive science (specialising in visuospatial cognition) and human-computer interaction.

Jonas Grafström
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Vice CEO at the Ratio Institute and a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

Rashmi Misra
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Holds a PhD in AI; previously a general manager at Microsoft.

Miloš N. Mladenović
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Expertise includes the development, assessment and governance of emerging mobility technologies.

Federico Pecora
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Expertise in constraint-based reasoning and automated planning and scheduling.

Radka Sabolova
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PhD in mathematical statistics, with data scientist experience.

Todor Stoyanov
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Expertise in perception algorithms and reinforcement learning for manipulation.

Aili Tang
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Co-investigator in projects on technology and trade.

Cristina Trenta
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Full professor of Public Law, focusing on the legal implications of artificial intelligence.

Joakim Wernberg
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PhD in economic geography, with interests in technological and economic change.