Awards

  • 2022-2023 Outstanding Paper Award of the International Journal of Forecasting for the paper “Real-time inflation forecasting using non-linear dimension reduction techniques”
  • Winner of the 2024 Kurt-Zopf-Förderpreis awarded by the University of Salzburg
  • 2023 Distinguished Author of the Journal of Applied Econometrics
  • Elected Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (SEM)
  • Best Paper Award of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy
  • Winner of the 2020 V. Jurgutis award granted by the Bank of Lithuania
  • Recipient of the 2019 Klaus-Liebscher-Research-Scholarship awarded by the OeNB
  • Ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences & Arts
  • Winner of the 2018 Young Economist Award of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG)
  • Winner of the 2015 Stephan Koren Prize for the dissertation “Bayesian Inference in Global Vector Autoregressive Models” (WU Vienna)
  • Winner of the 2014 Young Economist Award of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG)

Rankings

  • Wirtschaftswoche / Forschungsmonitoring Ranking: Rank 28 (author ranking, 5 years); Rank 11 (young authors)
  • IDEAS RePEc
    • Top Economists (worldwide, publications in last 10 years): Rank 613 (as of April 2026)
    • Top Economists (worldwide, 15 years or less): Rank 59 (as of April 2026)
    • Top Economists (Austria, publications in last 10 years): Rank 4 (as of April 2026)
    • Economist ranking by cohorts (worldwide, cohort of 2015): Rank 9 (as of April 2026)