I am an associate professor at the Utrecht University School of Economics. I do research on the economics of environmental policy, and climate policy in particular. This includes questions such as what are the economic repercussions of climate policy, and how does this depend on policy design? What is the economic justification for climate policy choices, and what policy mix is most appropriate in what context? 

Over the past years, I have published research on climate policy for emission mitigation and green innovation [1] [2]. I have co-authored work on the economics of meat taxation, and how over and above environmental concerns, health considerations justify higher fuel taxes. Recent and ongoing work focuses on policy interventions needed to decarbonize basic materials industries, including a green industrial policies. This latter research is supported by FORMAS, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development [grant Dnr: 2020-00174].

I was recently awarded an NWO Vidi grant, which I will use to study the interplay between firm heterogeneity and climate policy. This project will run from 2025-2030.

I like to occasionally comment on policy debates and economic trends that relate to my research expertise [3] [4].

At Utrecht University I teach topics related to economic growth, climate change and environmental policy. This includes a module on sustainable growth in the BSc course Intermediate Macroeconomics: Growth and Sustainability, lectures on the economics of climate change in the university-wide BSc course on Climate and Society. Further, I coordinate and teach a Research Master course in Advanced Macroeconomics, and a MSc course in Environmental Economics and Policy. 

From Sep 2016-Nov 2021 I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I obtained my PhD in 2016 at Tilburg University.