Postdoctoral Fellows

The Cowles Foundation regularly offers postdoctoral fellowships to promising young scholars in economics. Fellowships provide an opportunity for new Ph.D.s to focus on developing a strong research program in a stimulating collegial environment prior to taking on the full responsibilities of a ladder or tenure track faculty position.

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

2025-26

Rebekah Dix, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: Industrial Organization

Pearl Li, Ph.D.
Federal Trade Commission
Program Area: Industrial Organization

Paola Moscariello, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Adam Rosenberg Ph.D.
Stanford University
Program Area: Labor and Public Economics

Alejandro Sabal, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Program Area: International Trade

2024-25

Agostina Brinatti, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Program Area: International Trade

Nina Buchmann, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Program Area: Labor and Public Economics

Cody Cook, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Program Area: Labor and Public Economics

Roberto Corrao, Ph.D.
MIT
Program Area: Economic Theory

Maria Kogelnik, Ph.D.
UC Santa Barbara
Program Area: Economic Growth Center

Aleksei Oskolkov, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Program Area: Macroeconomics

Jingyuan Wang, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Industrial Organization

Zhengren Zhu, Ph.D.
McKinsey
Program Area: Labor and Public Economics

2023-24

Mayara Felix, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: International Trade

Joel Flynn, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: International Trade

Yingkai Li, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY)

Jonas Lieber, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Program Area: Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY)

Ernesto Rivera Mora, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
Program Area: Economic Theory

Martin Souchier, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Program Area: Macroeconomics

2022-23

Daniel Clark, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: Economic Theory

Lydia Cox, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Program Area: International Trade

Max Cytrynbaum, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: Econometrics

Yingkai Li, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Department

Marta Prato, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Program Area: Macroeconomics

2021-22

Krishna Dasaratha, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Ben Deaner, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Area: Econometrics

Oliko Vardishvili, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine)
Program Area:Macroeconomics

2020-21

Federico Huneeus, Ph.D.
Central Bank of Chile
Program Area: International Trade

Kai Hao Yang, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
Program Area: Economic Theory

2019-20

Charles Hodgson, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Program Area: Industrial Organization

Federico Huneeus, Ph.D.
Central Bank of Chile
Program Area: International Trade

Weijie Zhong, Ph.D.
Columbia University
Program Area: Economic Theory

2018-19

Giovanni Andreottola, Ph.D.
European University Institute
Program Area: Political Economy

Danial Lashkari, Ph.D.
Boston College
Program Area: International Trade

Christopher Li, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Political Economy

Xiaosheng Mu, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Dmitry Mukhin, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Program Area: Macroeconomics

Anna Sanktjohanser, Ph.D.
Yale University
Program Area: Economic Theory

David Schönholzer, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Program Area: Political Economy

2017-18

Giovanni Andreottola, Ph.D.
European University Institute
Program Area: Political Economy

Benjamin Connault, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Program Area: Econometrics

Soheil Ghili, Ph.D.
Kellogg School of Mgt. Northwestern University
Program Area: Structural Microeconomics

Danial Lashkari, Ph.D.
Boston College
Program Area: International Trade

Christopher Li, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Political Economy

Cormac O'Dea, Ph.D.
University College London
Program Area: Department

Jacopo Perego, Ph.D.
NYU
Program Area: Economic Theory

2016-17

Maria Laura Doval, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Mira Frick, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Program Area: Economic Theory

John Eric Humphries, Ph.D.
Program Area: Department

Ryota Iijima, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Giampaolo Lecce, Ph.D.
Università Bocconi
Program Area: Political Economy

Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Program Area: Political Economy

Yusuke Narita, Ph.D.
MIT
Program Area: Economic Theory, Structural Microeconomics

Pascual Restrepo, Ph.D.
MIT
Program Area: Macroeconomics

Sharon Traiberman, Ph.D.
Princeton University
Program Area: International Trade

2015-16

Abi Adams, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Program Area: Structural Microeconomics

Luciano Pomatto, Ph.D.
Kellogg School of Mgt. Northwestern University
Program Area: Economic Theory

Péter Vida, Ph.D.
Universität Mannheim
Program Area: Economic Theory