PhD students

 

Lindiwe Rennert
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Next Steps in the March Toward Transit Equity: Essays on the Seen and Unseen Impacts of Public Transit on our Suite of Life Experiences Conditional on Facets of our Identities

Pia-Katherina Andres
PhD in Environmental Economics
Essays on Trade, Competitiveness and Innovation in the Transition to Clean Technology

Muhammad Yorga Permana
PhD in Economic Geography
The Economic Geography of the Gig Economy in Indonesia

Ran Wei
PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Heritage construction in China: Negotiation and contestation of decision-making and heritage discourses

Marina Nazneen
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Who’s getting what? The dynamics of power, patronage, and clientelism in climate change adaptation initiatives in Bangladesh

Martin Munene
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Transboundary Climate and Adaptation Risk Governance

Julien Picard
PhD in Environmental Economics
The Side Effects of Green Soft Policies

Dalia Gebrial
PhD in Human Geography
Racial Platform Capitalism: Race, Labour and the Making of Platform Infrastructures

Yoonai Han 
PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Moving in stuckness: ethnography on the time-space of short-term workers in Seoul

Timo Leiter
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Assessing the implementation progress of adaptation to climate change

Lukáš Makovský
PhD in Economic Geography
Applications of Quantitative Spatial Models in Spatial and Urban Planning

Rebecca Maria Mari
PhD in Economic Geography
Private credit, public investment and natural disasters: creating and destroying private capital at local level   

Margarida Bandeira Morais
PhD in Economic Geography
Economic Complexity and Regional Development: Critical Essays

Martina Pardy
PhD in Economic Geography        
Essays on regional inequalities, innovation and global connectivity    

Mook Bangalore
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development            
Thesis: Sustainable Development Challenges: Global Evidence and Case Studies in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Nigeria

Giorgia Cecchinato
PhD in Environmental Economics 
Thesis: Essays on the impacts of weather shocks and electrification: evidence from the early Twentieth Century U.S.
 
Yang Zheng
PhD in Environmental Economics 
Thesis: Essays on the Economics of Green Innovation and Climate Policy

Pedro Llanos-Paredes
PhD in Economic Geography

Beatriz Jambrina Canseco
PhD in Economic Geography
 
Augustin Boey
PhD in Economic Geography
 
Han Wang
PhD in Economic Geography

Juan Soto Diaz
PhD in Economic Geography
 
Glen Gostlow
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development

Lorenzo Sileci
PhD in Environmental Economics

Juan Soto-Diaz
PhD in Economic Geography

Matthias Täger
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development 

Janna Tenzing
PhD in Environmental Policy and Development 

Anshuman Tiwari
PhD in Environmental Economics 

Louise Bernard 

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on urban and development economics

Billy Ndengeyingoma

PhD in Regional and Urban Planning Studies
Thesis: Geographies of the meantime: temporalities of housing cooperatives in Kigali, Rwanda 

Jonathan Barnes

PhD candidate in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: The assembly of climate finance in South Africa: Politics, scale and justice

Valeria Biffi

PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: The state effects of a state-led payment for ecosystem services scheme in Amazonian indigenous communities

Leanne Cass

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Essays on the economics of climate change, international trade, and meat consumption

Yunxiong Li

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Technolgical Innovation

Lars Ludolph

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the economics of migration

Xiaolun Yu

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the economics of land, housing, and urban policy

Zachary Turk

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Some Alternative Approaches to Persistent Environmental Problems and the Measurment of Inequality 

Didi Han

PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Practicing the urban commons between autonomy and togetherness: A genealogical analysis of the urban precariat movements in Tokyo and Seoul

Yohan Iddawela

PhD in Economic Geography 
Thesis: Papers on institutional quality and economic development in African regions

Carolin Iormashvili 

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on regional labour markets

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essay in macro and development economics 

Laura Antona

PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Anatomies and apparatuses of violence: the everyday encounters of migrant domestic workers in Singapore. 

Andreas Diemer

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in the spatial economic analysis of social interactions. 

Lindsey Jones

PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: Essays on resilience measurement. 

Tanner Regan

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in urban and development economics.

Matthew Sharp

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in spatial and labour economics.

Marta Talevi

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Economic and non-economic drivers of the low-carbon energy transition: evidence from households in the UK, rural India, and refugee settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Carl Truedsson 

PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies 
Thesis: Trygghet in a new time? Swedish social democracy and the aggravated socio-cultural politics of immigration

Matthew Agarwala

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Natural capital accounting and the measurement of sustainability. 

Julius Andersson

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: The environmental and distributional effects of carbon taxes. 

Joel Atherton

PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Thesis: Capturing public views on complex and unfamiliar goods: chemical water pollution in England and Wales. 

Filippo Boeri

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays in urban economics and international trade.

J. Eduardo Ibarra-Olivo

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: The economic geography of foreign direct investment and human capital in Mexican regions. 

Elisabetta Pietrostefani

PhD in Regional and Urban Planning
Thesis: Essays in planning policy and urban economics.

Cong Peng

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: Essays on urban and development economics. 

Jordana Ramalho

PhD in Human Geography and Urban Studies
Thesis: Risk, resilience and responsibilisation: gendered participation and empowerment in informal settlements of Metro Cebu, the Philippines. 

Lutz Sager

PhD in Environmental Economics
Thesis: Inequality, consumer choice, and the environment. 

Alexandra Sotiriou

PhD in Economic Geography
Thesis: The effects of trade integration and outward foreign direct investment: a regional and industry-level empirical investigation. 

Completion Year	First Employment Post PhD
2019	Senior Research Associate (Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge)
2019	Assistant Prof (Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)
2019	Assistant Prof (Georgetown)
2019	Economist (OECD)
2020	Post Doc (Yale)
2021	Researcher (Gerrmany)
2022	Research Officer (GRI)
2022	Post Doc (Columbia)
2022	Assistant Prof (Vrije Amsterdam)
2022	Assistant Prof (Aston)
2022	Post Doc (GRI)
2023	LSE Fellow (Economics)
2023	Researcher (The Inclusion Initiative, LSE)
2023	Assistant Prof (IE Business School, Madrid)
2024	Post Doc (Politecnico Di Milano)

Completion Year	First Employment Post PhD
2019	Postdoc on MASSIVE (LSE)
2019	Postdoc at University of Thessaly
2019	Assistant Professor (University of Reading)
2019	Assistant Professor , Peking University
2020	Postdoc Swedish intitute for Social Research
2020	Postdoc (Oxford - Blavatnik School of Government)
2020	Research Fellow (LBS)
2020	Assistant Prof at HEC Lausanne
2021	Executive Director at 505 Economics
2021	Labour Market Economist at OECD
2021	Reading University (Lecturer)
2021	Fudan University (Assistant Professor)
2021	Research Fellow (University of Birmingham)
2022	Post-doc / Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore
2022	OECD (Junior Economist)
2022	Sustainable Development Economics Fellow (World bank)
2022	Economist (Zalando)
2023	Postdoc at International Inequalities Institute (LSE)
2023	LSE Fellow (Geography and Environment)
2023	Assistant Professor (Universidad Catolica del Norte)
2024	Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, Sevilla
2024	Postdoc at LSE International Inequalities Institute
2024	Postdoc at University of Oxford
2024	Assistant Professor (University of Reading)
2024	Economist at NIESR
2024	Lecturer ( Institut Teknologi Bandung)
2024	Senior Economist (Bank of England)
2024	World Bank

Completion Year	First Employment Post PhD
2018	Research Officer (MEC)
2019	Senior Policy Researcher (Citizens Advice)
2020	Senior Consultant (World Bank)
2021	Senior Technical Advisor (GIZ)
2022	Social Development Specialist (World Bank) Post Doc (Zurich)
2023	Post Doc (UC Santa Barbara)

Completion Year	First Employment Post PhD
2020	Consultant (Monitor Deloitte)
2020	Postdoc (Manchester)
2020	ESRC Fellow (Oxford)
2020	ESRC Post-Doc (LSE)
2021	Research Professor (Andong National University)
2023	University Lecturer (Leiden University)
2024	Lecturer (Kings College)

Completion Year	First employment post PhD
2018	ESRC Postdoc (LSE)
2018	Lecturer (UCL)
2018	Research Officer (LSE)
2019	Research Fellow (UCL)
2020	ESRC Postdoc (LSE)
2022	Advisor for Urban Development (Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure)
2024	Lecturer in Urban Studies (University of Hong Kong)