About me

I am a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Zürich Department of Economics with Professor David Yanagizawa-Drott. I am interested in political economy and how AI can reshape scientific discovery (check out APE for more on this).

I graduated from Cornell University with a dual BA in Computer and Information Science and Government, and was a fellow at the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute.

I'm lucky enough to travel often, and along the way I've taken a few pictures.

You can see my research here, code here, and find me on Linkedin here.

Feel free to reach out at olaf.willner@econ.uzh.ch