The GDL Team

Find out who we are and what we do on this page.

Core Team

Natascha Wagner

Director

Applied (Micro-)Econometrics, Development Economics, Gender
Aaron van Geffen

Scientific Programmer

Computational Modelling, Machine Learning
Olexiy Kyrychenko

Assistant professor

Environmental and health economics, climate change, and development economics
Janine Huisman

Senior Data Scientist

Household Surveys, Big Data, Educational Participation
Jeroen Smits

Founder

Founder of the GDL. Professor of inequality and development at Radboud University

PhD Candidates

Anne Lieke Ebbers

PhD Candidate

Large-Scale Data Analysis, International Development/Economics, Children’s rights
Emily Bergner

PhD Candidate

Internal migration in LMIC countries
Jet Wildeman

PhD Candidate

Large-Scale Data Analysis, Development Economics, Computational Social Science

Collaborators

Sander Chan

Assistant professor - Environment

international relations, environmental policy, sustainable development, transnational governance, China, EU
Lamar Crombach

PhD Candidate

Political Economics, Development Economics, Demography
Andrew Deneault

Researcher

Non-State Action, Development Economics, Data Analysis