In a part time position, he is also an economist in the research department of the Dutch Central Bank and Fellow of Tinbergen Institute and the Erasmus Research Institute of Management. Previously, he was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge and a research economist at the UK Debt Management Office. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Masters degree from Humboldt-Universität Berlin. His research interests are in the areas of applied and theoretical econometrics.