Economics occupies most of my working hours, but not all of them.
I grew up speaking Hebrew and English interchangeably, and that early experience of moving between languages and cultures has stayed with me. I have since picked up basic Spanish and Thai, less out of any systematic effort than a genuine curiosity about the places I have lived and travelled through. Language, to me, is the fastest route into understanding how people think.
That curiosity about people and places shapes how I travel too. Conferences have taken me to Bali, Singapore, San Diego, Paris, and Tel Aviv in recent years, and I tend to treat every trip as an opportunity to explore properly rather than just attend sessions and fly home. Some of my best research ideas have come from conversations well outside seminar rooms.
On the technical side, I genuinely enjoy the craft of empirical work, not just the economics, but the data engineering that makes it possible. I work extensively in Stata, R, and LaTeX, have advanced proficiency in DNAnexus for large-scale genomic data on the UK Biobank platform, and am building my Python skills. There is something quietly satisfying about writing clean, efficient code for a messy, complicated problem.
Outside the desk, I follow health and science communication with interest — particularly how complex research findings get translated (or mistranslated) for public audiences. It is something I try to do better myself, whether through conference presentations, teaching, or the occasional Twitter thread.
Languages English — native · Hebrew — native · Spanish — basic · Thai — basic
Technical skills Stata — advanced · R — advanced · LaTeX — advanced · DNAnexus — advanced · Python — working knowledge · Microsoft Office — advanced