Who am I?
My teaching expertise is in the areas of applied environment and development economics, behavioural science and public policy, health economics and policy, and quantitative methods (causal inference). I am currently the Professional Education Lead of the Policy Institute at King's College London/
I have won the LSE 2022 Excellence in Class Teaching Award, LSE 2021 Class Teacher Award and LSE 2020 Highly Commended Class Teacher Award for my teaching practices. I have also received two teaching innovation grants during my time at VU Amsterdam, enabling me to set-up a VR Lab which I lead.
What do I currently teach?
Module Convenor, Health Economics, MSc in Health and Social Care (2025 Lent Term)
Module Convenor, Economic Analysis of Public Policy, UK Policy Leadership Program @King's (Summer 2025)
Executive Courses: Behavioural Insights for Policy & Policy and Programme Evaluation; FCDO Development Course (Lecture on "Climate & Development") (Michaelmas 2024/Lent 2025)
Summer and Winter Schools: Statistical Methods for Causal Inference (in VU Amsterdam Summer School).
My professional developments?
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). I also hold a Dutch University Teaching Qualification (BKO).
I have completed the External Examiners Professional Development Course by the UK Advance HE and I am registered as available for external examining.
Previous Positions Held
From 2022-2024 (Nov), I was affiliated to the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam as an Assistant Professor. Here I was a lecturer on the following modules:
Academic Writing Skills (2022, 2023) as a Course Lecturer.
Sustainable Energy Systems (2022, 2023) as a Course Coordinator and Lecturer.
Methods for Economic Analysis (2023, 2024) as a Course Coordinator and Lecturer.
Behavioural Public Policy (2023 Winter) as Course Founder and Coordinator and Lecturer.
Statistical Methods of Causal Inference as Course Founder and Coordinator and co-Lecturer with Jack Fitzgerald.
From 2019-2022, I was affiliated to the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Lead Teaching Assistant. Here I served on the following committees:
LSE Research Degree Sub-Committee (LSE RDSC),
Departmental Graduate Teaching Committee (DGTC)
G&E Examination Sub-board.
In the past, I have been responsible for teaching in the following courses
GY121: Sustainable Development (Lent Term 2021, 2022): I have been responsible for managing other GTAs on the course, designing and leading class teaching.
GY222: Applied Environmental Economics (Lent Term 2018, Michaelmas Term, 2021, Lent Term 2022). I designed and led class teaching.
GY329: Applied Economics of Environment and Development (Lent Term 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). I have been responsible for course redesign along with Dr. Charles Palmer. Delivered Methods Lecture and led class teaching.
GY428: Applied Quantitative Methods (Michaelmas Term 2019, 2020, 2021). I have been responsible for designing and delivering class teaching with statistical software (Stata).
EC240: Environmental Economics (Summer Term 2019, 2021). I have been responsible for teaching classes in the LSE Summer School.
Other Assistant Examiner Duties
GY209: The Economics of Trade, Production and Development and
MSc / PhD supervision
Supervised to completion (as primary supervisor):
2020/21: LSE Change Makers Research Supervision -- Ms. Aleksandra Furmanek (UG2, LSE Economics); Ms. Kristina Sosnina (PGT, LSE Management); 2021/22: LSE Change Makers Research Supervision -- Ms. Celine Mano (UG3, LSE Economics & Statistics), Ms. Aleksandra Furmanek (UG3, LSE Economics)
MSc Supervision (primary, in alphabetical order): Mr. Jeannot Peijen (MSc Env & Res. Management, VU Amsterdam), Mr. Vikram Jolly (MSc Urban Env. Management, Wageningen University), Ms. Marleen Jonge (MSc Climate Econometrics, VU Amsterdam), Ms. Jennifer Kraaijeveld (MSc Env & Res. Management, VU Amsterdam), Ms. Louska Lampe (MSc Env & Res. Management, VU Amsterdam), Ms. Jet Mensinga (MSc Env & Res. Management, VU Amsterdam).
PhD Supervision: Ms. Leonie Peiffer (VU-IVM, 2022-2026, PhD Environmental Economics, co-promoter, discontinued in November 2023), Mr. Marjan Nikoloski (VU-IVM, 2022-2026, PhD Environmental Economics, co-promoter), Mr. Ivar Maas (VU-IVM, 2022-2026, PhD in Environmental Economics, co-promoter), Ms. Marta Buso (VU-IVM, 2024-2028, PhD in Environmental Economics, co-promoter), Mr. Daniele Stampatori (Comillas Pontificia & VU IVM, 2024-2028, PhD in Energy and Behavioural Economics, co-promoter), Mrs Cassandra Bossman-Dampare (2024-2027, PhD in Applied Public Policy)
PhD Examination Committee: Çağla Çınar (VU-IVM, PhD Psychology, Fall 2023); Quang Duc Pham (IE Business School, PhD Marketing, Fall 2024)