Professor of Spatial Economics and Real Estate, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

I am a Professor of Spatial Economics and Real Estate at the Department of Land Economy and a Fellow in Economics and Land Economy at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge.

I earned my PhD in Economics with a focus on Urban and Regional Economics in Jönköping, Sweden, in 2014. I completed part of my PhD studies at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois. Before Cambridge, I worked as an Assistant Professor at Jönköping International Business School and as a Researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) in Stockholm. With strong ties to Sweden, I remain affiliated with Handelns Forskninginstitut (Institute of Retail Economics) in Stockholm and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Spatial Economics (CEnSE) in Jönköping as a Research Fellow.

My research deals with migration and labour mobility, micro-geography of segregation and ethnic enclaves, retail and service geography, urban amenities, the geography of entrepreneurship, and political geography. I am a former recipient of the Handelsbanken Wallander postdoctoral scholarship in Sweden (2015), the Young Investigator Award in Italy (2018), as well as the Young Researcher Award in Sweden (2019) awarded by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. In addition to my engagement in academia, I write monthly columns at the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet (eng. The Swedish Daily News) between 2015-2023.