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

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

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

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

Anshul Goel

BS | IIT Kanpur
MS | IIT Kanpur
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisors | Giovanni Compiani, Sarah Moshary, Bradley Shapiro

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

Henry Klingenstein

Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Jiguang Li

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

Qianqian Li

BS | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA | Yale University
Faculty group | Accounting Faculty supervisor | Charles McClure

Katie Lin

BS | Columbia University
MS | Columbia University
Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisor | Sendhil Mullainathan

Yu-Shiou (Willy) Lin

BS | National Taiwan University
MS | London School of Economics
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Budish

Gabriel Lobato Ramos

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

Jack Luby

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

Prithviraj Pahwa

BS | University of California San Diego
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Emanuele Colonnelli and Kilian Huber

James Ross

BS | University of New South Wales
Faculty group | Behavioral
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

Daniel J. Sonnenstuhl

BA | University College London
MS | University College London
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Neale Mahoney

Gabriel Varela

BS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Valeri Nikolaev

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 | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Pascal Noel

Prithviraj Pahwa

BS | University of California San Diego
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Emanuele Colonnelli and Kilian Huber

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

Current Senior Research Professionals

Leifu Zhang

Research Professional Alumni

Byeongchan An

BS & BBA | Korea University
MS | University of British Columbia
Faculty group | Accounting
Post-Booth | PhD at the University of Utah

Valerii Baidin

BS | Perm State University
MS | New Economics School
Faculty group | Finance
Post-Booth | McGill University Finance PhD Program

Abigail Bergman

BA | Smith College
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Post-Booth | PhD at Stanford GSB

Therese Bonomo

BA | University of Notre Dame
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Northwestern University Economics PhD Program

Min Byung Chae

BA | Yale University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Both | UChicago Center for International Relations graduate program

Ethan Che

BA | Columbia University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Columbia University Decision, Risk, and Operations PhD program

Jin Deng

BA | Nanjing University
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Post-Booth | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Accounting PhD Program

Léa Dousset

Alison Doxey

BS | Brigham Young University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | PhD program at Chicago Harris

Nidhaanjit Jain

BA | St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi
MS | London School of Economics
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Ginha Kim

BA | New York University
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD Program

Jan Knuf

BS | University of Mannheim
MS | University of Bonn
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Yale Tobin Center

Igor Kuznetsov

MA | Louisiana State University
MA | University of British Columbia
Faculty group | Accounting
Post Both | London Business School Finance PhD program

Spyros Kypraios

BS | Athens University of Economics and Business
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Constantine Yannelis

Si Kai Lee

BS | University of Southampton
MS | Columbia University
Faculty group | Econometrics
Post-Booth | Yale Statistics PhD program

Feng Lin

BA | Swarthmore College
Faculty group | Microeconomics/Macroeconomics
Post-Booth | UChicago Economics PhD program

Richard Liu

BA & BS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Post-Booth | Yale Tobin Center

Bei (Nicole) Luo

BA | Emory University
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Micro
Post-Booth | University of Michigan PhD program

Edoardo Marchesi

BS | Bocconi University
MA | University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty group | Finance
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Derek Miller

BS | Brigham Young University
Faculty group | Marketing
Post-Booth | Math Kills (founder)

Laurence O’Brien

BA | University of Cambridge
MPhil | University of Cambridge
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Valdemar Pinho Neto

Milica Popovic

MA | University of Belgrade
Faculty group | Marketing

Paulo Henrique de Alcantara Ramos

LLB | University of Brasilia
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Peter Robertson

BCom | University of Melbourne
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | PhD at Stanford Economics

Tashfeen Saeed

BBA | University of Dhaka
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Behavioral
Post-Booth | Cornell University Economics PhD Program

Cassidy Shubatt

BS | University of Iowa
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Post-Booth | Harvard University PhD Program

Sixun (Bill) Tang

BS | Peking University
Faculty group | Finance
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Xuyang Xia

BA | Brandeis University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Stanford RA program

Sam Wallach Hanson

BA | Swarthmore College
Faculty group | Microeconomics

Jinglin Wang

BA | Pomona College
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Stanford RA program

Zhenping Wang

Zizhe Xia

BEcon | University of Hong Kong
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Ningyin Xu

BA | Nankai University
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Natalie Yang

BS | Yale University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Columbia University Economics PhD program

Belle Zhang

BA | University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Post-Booth | Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School PhD program

Emily Zhang

BS & BA | New York University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Jingyu Zhang

BS | Wuhan University
MS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Post-Booth | Chicago Booth PhD program

Principal Researchers

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

Daniel Albohn

Azam Asl

Angelos Aveklouris

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

Principal Researcher Alumni

Olivia Bergman

BA | Wellesley College
PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty group | Behavioral
Post-Booth | Researcher at University of Chicago
Visit Olivia Bergman's Website

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler

Alba V. Olivares-Nadal

David Puelz

BA | Wesleyan University
MS | The University of Texas at Austin
PhD | The University of Texas at Austin
Faculty group | Econometrics
Post-Booth | Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance at McComb, Director of Policy Analytics at the Salem Center for Policy
Visit David Puelz's Website

Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala

BTech | IIT Bombay
PhD | Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty group | Econometrics
Post-Booth | Researcher at Google Research

Y. Samuel Wang

BA | Rice University
PhD | University of Washington
Faculty group | Econometrics
Post-Booth | Assistant Professor of Statistics, Cornell University
Visit Y. Samuel Wang's Website