Research Staff Program Current Staff

Chicago Booth research staff include research professionals (RPs) and principal researchers (PRs).

RPs are often graduates of bachelor’s or master’s programs in the quantitative social sciences, though Booth’s capacious and interdisciplinary research means that many RPs have mathematics, psychology, or engineering backgrounds. PRs possess a PhD, and they collaborate with faculty on their research.

Our current RPs and PRs can be found below. To see a list of current openings, visit Join Our Team.

See Current Staff and Alumni

Research Professionals

These one- to two-year positions help many RPs move into top-tier PhD programs at business schools or in the social sciences. Some RPs choose to begin careers in industry or the public sector as researchers or data scientists.

Federica Ansbacher

BS | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
MS | LUISS University Rome
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | João Granja, Thomas Rauter, and Michael Weber

Anastasiya Apalkova

BA | University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor |Oleg Urminsky and Abigail Sussman

Peter Banks

BS | George Mason University
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Mark Maffett and Delphine Samuels

Thomas Barry

BCom | University of Melbourne
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Michael Minnis and Maximilian Muhn

Marek Bojko

BS | University of Glasgow
MPhil | University of Cambridge
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Thomas Wollmann and Milena Almagro

Drew Burd

BA | The University of Texas at Austin
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Tim Cejka

BA | University of Manchester
MSc | London School of Economics
Faculty group |Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Pascal Noel

Bo-Yu Ian Chen

BA | National Taiwan University
MA | National Taiwan University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Richard Hornbeck and Anders Humlum

Pedro Correia Bezerra

BS | University of Brasilia
MS | University of Brasilia
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Valeri Nikolaev

Carla Colina

BIE | The University of British Columbia
Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisor | Devin Pope

Katherine Daehler

BA | Northwestern University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Rebecca Dizon-Ross

Sara Drango

BA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisors | Bradley Shapiro and Sarah Moshary

Erin Eidschun

BA | The University of Chicago
MA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Brent Neiman and Elisa Rubbo

Jonas Enders

BSc | University of Mannheim
MSc | London School of Economics
Faculty group | Macroeconomics
Faculty supervisors: Christina Patterson and Joseph Vavra

Lila Englander

BA | The University of California, Berkeley
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Heather Sarsons

Ekaterina Fedorova

BA | University of California, Berkeley
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Anna Costello

Nobuyuki Furuta

BA | Soka University of America
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Rimmy Tomy

Catalina Garcia Valenzuela

BA | Dartmouth College
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Jack Mountjoy

Rebecca Goldgof

BA | Cornell University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson

Ozzy Houck

BA | Carleton College
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Daniil Iurchenko

BA | Higher School of Economics
MS | Barcelona GSE - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Faculty group | Macroeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Jonathan Dingel

Tobias Hülden

BS | University of Bonn
MS | University of Bonn
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Michael Weber

Jason Jia

BS | London School of Economics
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Emanuele Colonnelli and Kilian Huber

Christy Kang

BA | University of California, Berkeley
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisors | Alex Imas and Avner Strulov-Shlain

Harleen Kaur

BA | Smith College
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Jaymo Kim

BA | Northwestern University
MS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Anita Rao

Joe Kook

BBA and BS | Seoul National University
MS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Günter J. Hitsch

Jonas Knecht

BS | University of Warwick
MPhil | The University of Cambridge
Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Peter Kress

BA & BS | The College of William and Mary
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Scott Nelson

Junyoung Jeong

BA & BS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Jonathan Bonham, Amoray Riggs-Cragun, and Haresh Sapra

Jiguang Li

BA | Middlebury College
MA | Yale University
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Gabriel Lobato Ramos

BS | University of Brasilia
MS | Barcelona GSE - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Emanuele Colonnelli

Jiaxuan Lu

BS | University of Southern California
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Richard Hornbeck and Anders Humlum

Jack Luby

BA | Harvard University
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Varun Satish

BEc | The University of Sydney
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Rebecca Dizon-Ross

Jordyn Schor

BA | The University of Pennsylvania
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Daniel Bartels & Celia Gaertig

Marin Serramo

BS | Universidad de Buenos Aires
MS | Universidad de San Andrés
Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisor | Joshua Dean

Peyman Shahidi

BS | Sharif University of Technology
MA | Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS)
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Budish and Anthony Zhang

Zirui (Tim) Song

BS | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Christian Leuz and João Granja

Wendy Wen

BMan | Tsinghua University
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Hans Christensen and Mark Maffett

Blake Woods

BS | University of California, San Diego
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Adam Wu

BS & BA | Indiana University
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Faculty supervisor | Sanjog Misra

Nicolas Wuthenow

BS | University of Munich
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Kilian Huber, Emanuele Colonnelli

Olivia Xiong

BA | University of Chicago
Faculty Group | Finance, Accounting
Faculty Supervisors | Emanuele Colonnelli and Thomas Rauter

Tarun Yadav

BA | Williams College
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Jiuhe Zhang

BA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Richard Hornbeck and Anders Humlum

Katie Zhang

BCom | The University of Melbourne
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Pascal Noel

Senior Research Professionals

Leifu Zhang

Principal Researchers

These two- to three-year positions prepare PRs to enter the academic job market.

Daniel Albohn

Azam Asl

Kevin Bello

BS | National University of Engineering
PhD | Purdue University
Faculty group | Econometrics
Faculty supervisor | Bryon Aragam
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Chen Chen

PhD | Duke University
Faculty group | Operations
Faculty supervisor | Rad Niazadeh

Jing Huang

PhD | Duke University
Faculty group | Faculty
Faculty supervisor | Zhiguo He

Daniel O’Leary

BS | Northwestern University
PhD | Stanford University
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisors | Daniel Bartels, Abigail Sussman, and Oleg Urminsky

Fatemeh Navidi

Wai Ming Tai

Bradley Turnwald

Stefan Uddenberg

Di Wang

BS | University of Hong Kong
PhD | University of Hong Kong
Faculty group | Econometrics
Faculty supervisor | Ruey Tsay

Yuwei Zhou

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