I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Economics section at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.), where I also completed my Research Master’s in Multidisciplinary Economics. My academic journey began at the University of Tehran, where I earned my BSc in Economics. I am a researcher driven by the belief that persistent problems require new solutions.

My work sits at the intersection of Behavioral Economics, Welfare Economics, and Social Policy Design. I am specifically curious about how the quality of financial decision-making impacts individual and collective welfare.

While my current research evaluates the welfare impacts and targeting of drought insurance, my broader objective is to understand the role of social networks in financial behavior. I aim to uncover how peer effects and social circles influence decision quality, the factors often neglected in standard economic analysis. My goal is to provide the empirical evidence needed to design network-based policies that foster a more equitable and financially resilient society.

To address the complexities of universal administrative datasets and large-scale networks, I am developing expertise in: causal and predictive machine learning, the econometrics of social networks, and Bayesian statistics.