The University of Chicago

Team

Meet The Normal Lab team.

Leadership

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Leonardo Bursztyn

Founder & Director, The Normal Lab
The Saieh Family Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Co-director of the Becker Friedman Institute Political Economics Initiative
Co-director of the Program in Behavioral Economics Research

Research Staff

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Fatima Azmat

Research Director

Jerome Romano Blanc

Predoctoral Research Fellow
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Ada Gianassi

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Leon Haziraj

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Nicolas Goulart de Moura

Predoctoral Research Fellow
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Margarita Kudaeva

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Andrei Smirnov

Predoctoral Research Fellow
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George Beknazar-Yuzbashev

Postdoctoral Scholar

UChicago Graduate Students

With start year of PhD

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Michael Cuna

2019
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Pepi Pandiloski

2019
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Ashton Pallottini

2020
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Sofia Shchukina

2021
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Moustafa El-Kashlan

2022
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Alexandre Simoes Gomes

2022
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Andrew Kennedy

2022
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Aaron Leonard

2022
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Dylan Baker

2023
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Shivani Pandey

2023
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Santiago Perez-Cardona

2023

External Graduate Students

With start year of PhD

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Aakaash Rao

2020
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Timm Gries

2021
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Andrei Kim

2022

Operations Staff

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Amymarie Anderson

Executive Assistant

Alumni

With initial position after predoctoral research fellowship

Elias Hadj Ammar

UC Berkeley Haas BPP

Silvia Barbareschi

UC Berkeley Haas BPP

Jan Fasnacht

Columbia Economics

Beyza Nur Gulmezoglu

LSE Economics

Raymond Han

MIT Economics

Andrew Kao

Harvard Economics

Andrei Kim

Harvard Economics

Filip Milojevic

MIT Economics

Anastasiya Nebolsina

MIT Economics

Kailash Rajah

MIT Economics

Aakaash Rao

Harvard Economics

Ewan Rawcliffe

Harvard Economics

Vanessa Sticher

MIT Economics

Parker Whitfill

MIT Economics

Rebecca Wu

UChicago Economics

Stan Xie

UChicago Economics

Alison Zhao

Northwestern Kellogg MECS

Christoph Ziegler

MIT Economics