Maria is a Research Economist in the Structural Economics Division. She holds a PhD and MPhil from the University of Oxford and a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the Bank, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IZA, taught at the Universities of Oxford and Bonn, and completed a 3-month fellowship at the Financial Times.
Her work focuses on various aspects of the labour market, particularly the dynamics of search and matching, geographic mobility, and the relationship between workers and employers.
Job search during a pandemic recession: survey evidence from the Netherlands with Nico Pestel, Simon Trenkle and Christian Zimplemann, Labour Economics (2022)
Firm concentration & job design: the case of schedule flexible work arrangements with Abi Adams, Matthias Qian and Tom Waters, Review of Economics and Statistics (2026)
The labour market costs of job displacement by migrant status with Hannah Illing, Journal of Human Resources (2026)
