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.

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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.

Thomas Barry

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

Alex Blumenfeld

BA | Boston University
Faculty group | Macroeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Christina Patterson and Joseph Vavra

Marek Bojko

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

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

Boyie Chen

BA | National Cheng-Chi University
MA | National Taiwan University
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Charles McClure

Eva Chen

BA | The University of Hong Kong
Faculty group | Marketing, Behavioral
Faculty supervisors | Daniel Bartels and Shereen Chaudhry

Ruoyu Chen

BA | New York University
MA | Yale University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Rebecca Dizon-Ross

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

Rupsha Debnath

BA | University of California, Berkeley
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Pascal Noel

Samuel Earnest

BA | Brigham Young University
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Constantine Yannelis

Jonas Enders

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

Ekaterina Fedorova

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

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

Baiyang Han

BA | Tsinghua University
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Anthony Lee Zhang, Constantine Yannelis, and Quentin Vandeweyer

Josh Hascher

BA | The Ohio State University
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisors | Alex Imas and Steph Smith

Jason Jia

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

Ji-Eon Kim

BA | Seoul National University
MS | University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Christopher Stewart

Angelo Kisil Marino

BS | University of São Paulo
MASc | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Matthew Notowidigo

Paulina Koenig

BS | University of Amsterdam
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Alex Imas and Avner Strulov-Shlain

Daniel Leonard

BS | University of Tehran
MA | Paris School of Economics
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisors | Jonathan Bonham, Amoray Riggs-Cragun, Haresh Sapra

Rebecca Liu

BA | The University of Chicago
MA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Machine Learning
Faculty supervisor | Sanjog Misra

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

Hannah Maeder

BA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Scott Nelson

Aarti Malik

BA | Miranda House College, University of Delhi
MA | Delhi School of Economics
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Delphine Samuels

Tommaso Manfe

BA | Università Degli Studi di Padova
MA | Università Degli Studi di Padova
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Michael Weber

Michael Meyer

BA | Swarthmore College
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Pascal Noel

Anh-huy Nguyen

BS | Duke University
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Eric Zwick

Gabriele Romano

BA | Bocconi University
MA | Bocconi University
Faculty group | Macroeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Elisa Rubbo

Esfandiar Rouhani

BA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisors | Niels Gormsen and Kilian Huber

John Ruf

BS | Michigan Technological University
MA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Macroeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Jonathan Dingel

Arthur Schwerz

BA | University of São Paulo (USP)
MA | São Paulo School of Economics (FGV-EESP)
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Günter J. Hitsch

Martin 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

Austin Smith

BS | University of Pennsylvania
Faculty group | Behavioral
Faculty supervisors | Erika Kirgios and Alex Koch

Zirui (Tim) Song

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

John Spence

BA | Williams College
MPP | University of Chicago Harris
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisor | Pascal Noel

Anthony Adam Sy

Sam Thorpe

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

Anh Tran

BA | NYU
Faculty group | Microeconomics
Faculty supervisors | Matthew Notowidigdo, Christopher Campos

Simone Valle

BS | University of Trento
MS | Bocconi University
Faculty group | Finance
Faculty supervisor | Emanuele Colonnelli

Jizhou Wang

BA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Accounting
Faculty supervisor | Rimmy Tomy

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

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

Zhen Yuan

MA | The University of Chicago
Faculty group | Marketing
Faculty supervisor | Bradley Shapiro

Jiuhe Zhang

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

Senior Research Professionals

Leifu Zhang

Principal Researchers

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

Daniel Albohn

Kevin Bello

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

BS | Northwestern University
PhD | Columbia University
Faculty group | Operations
Faculty supervisor | Baris Ata

Jungeum Kim

BS | Seoul National University
PhD | Purdue University
Faculty group | Econometrics
Faculty supervisor | Veronika Rockova

Dawei Li

BS | Peking University
PhD | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty group | Operations
Faculty supervisors | Baris Ata

Dan Luo

BA | Tsinghua University
PhD | Stanford University
Faculty group | Finance
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

Jaeyoung Park

PhD | University of Florida
Faculty group | Operations Management
Faculty supervisor | Dan Adelman

Wai Ming Tai

Bradley Turnwald

Stefan Uddenberg

Yonatan Vanunu

Laura Wallace

BA | Xavier University
MA and PhD | Ohio State University
Faculty group | Behavioral Science
Faculty supervisor | Emma Levine

Baoyu Zhou

Yuwei Zhou

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