He is also a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a fellow of the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (Milan). His research is focused on international trade, economic geography and applied industrial organizations. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2007 from the Central European University and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.