I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Queen's University Belfast, specializing in market design. 

I have published in Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of Mathematical Economics, and Social Choice and Welfare. My research has been covered by The Economist, The Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, BBC's Thinking Allowed, and Forbes.

I obtained my PhD from the University of Glasgow, advised by Hervé Moulin. 

I sit on the program committees of the Economics and Computation Conference (2023–2025), the Matching in Practice Workshop (2022 & 2024), the Royal Economic Society Conference (2024) and the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (2025).

Publications

1. School choice with independent versus consolidated districts

Games and Economic Behavior (2024) with T. Klein and R. Aue, 

2. The cost of strategy-proofness in school choice

Games and Economic Behavior (2023) with T. Klein, 

-> extended abstract in the Matching under Preferences Workshop.

3. Fair cake-cutting in practice

Games and Economic Behavior (2022) with M. Kyropoulou and E. Segal-Halevi, 

-> extended abstract in the Conference on Economics and Computation.

4. Obvious manipulations in cake-cutting

Social Choice and Welfare (2022) with E. Segal-Halevi. 

5. On the integration of Shapley-Scarf housing markets

Journal of Mathematical Economics (2022) with K. Manocha and R. Kumar, 

-> extended abstract in the Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory.

6. Efficiency and fairness in cake-cutting with single-peaked preferences

Economics Letters (2020) with B. Bhardwaj and R. Kumar

7. Multi-unit assignment under dichotomous preferences

Mathematical Social Sciences (2020).

8. The losses from integration in matching markets can be large

Economics Letters (2019)

9. Social integration in two-sided matching markets

Journal of Mathematical Economics (2018)

Working Papers

1. Unimprovable students and inequality in school choice, with G. Ziegler and P. Aribillaga

2. The limits of school choice with consent, with G. Ziegler

-> extended abstract in the Conference on Web and Internet Economics.

3. Social integration via online dating, with P. Hergovich. 


Refereeing and Editorial Activities

Program Committee: 

Journals: Journal of Economic Theory,  Theoretical Economics, Management Science, AEJ Microeconomics, Games and Economic Behavior, European Economic Review, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Social Choice and Welfare, Economics Letters, International Journal of Game Theory, Economic Inquiry, Theory and Decision, Social Networks, Mathematical Social Sciences, Journal of Demographic Economics,  Stochastic Systems. 

Other Conferences: EC 2020, WINE 2018, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Games, Agents & Incentives Workshop.

Co-Chair: Irish Economic Theory network.


Others

PhD Students

Taylor Knipe, (2024 - today), funded by the Northern Ireland Department of Economy,

Conferences Organised

Awards and Grants

As PI: 

As co-PI:

Internal Grants:

North America Research Mobility Fund, QUB Faculty Research Initiatives Fund, EssexLab Seedcorn Fund Grant, Glasgow - Columbia Principal's Early Career Mobility Fund.

Awards:

Personal

Mexican and British citizen.

Address: Office 02.021, Riddel Hall Block 3, 185 Stranmillis Rd, Belfast BT9 5EE