JILAEE Research Assistants

Research assistants at JILAEE are typically Bachelor or Master students that are essential to our research projects. They support principle investigators with background research, data collection and processing, and preliminary analysis. If you would like to become a JILAEE research assistant please contact us.

 Research Assistants Team

  • Panteleymon Semka

    Panteleymon is an undergraduate student studying physics and economics at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires in 2020 and joined JILAEE in 2021. His areas of interest include economic development and behaviour with regard to the Argentine context.

  • Horacio Medina

    Horacio joined the team in September 2019 and is currently a student of the M.A. in Economics program at UCEMA. He has been a teaching assistant at UCEMA since 2020. He is currently an associate at PwC. His main fields of interest are Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics and Behavioral Economics

  • Juan Martín Favetto

    Juan is an undergraduate student of Economics at UCEMA. He started as an RA at the Friedman Hayek Center for the Study of a Free Society, in 2022. His fields of interest include the study of institutions within cultural frameworks and monetary policy. When doing research, his main concern are the epistemological underpinnings.

  • Martina Lacoma

    Martina is doing a masters in economics at the CEMA university. She has a bachelor in electrical engineering in systems engineering and a bachelor in economics from the University of Ottawa. She joined Jilaee in September 2023. Her main areas of interest are microeconomics, financial engineering, financial economics and systems science.

  • Octavio Pujalte

    Octavio has a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from UADE. At the moment he is a first-year student of the Master's Degree in Economics at UCEMA. His main areas of interest are Institutional Economics, Information Economics and Behavioral Economics.

  • Erin Atacan

    Erin Atacan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Queen’s University and is pursuing a second Bachelor’s in Economics at the same institution. Her main areas of interests are machine learning, natural language processing and behavioural economics.

  • Ahmad Nadi

    Ahmad is a rising Junior at the University of Chicago planning on pursuing a dual major in both Economics spec. Data Science and Computer Science. I am interested in experimental economics, economic growth, and data analytics.

  • Tomás Villar

    Tomás is a BA student in Economics at UCEMA. He joined JILAEE in June 2024. His main interests are Econometrics, Behavioural Economics and Monetary Economics.

  • María del Mar Megy

    María is a third year student of the Bachelor's Degree in Actuary at UCEMA. She joined the JILAEE team in March 2025. Her main areas of interest are Microeconomics, Applied Mathematics and Data Analytics.

  • Leandro Monzón

    Leandro is a third year BA student in economics at UCEMA. He joined JILAEE in march 2025. His areas of interest are applied mathematics, behavioural economics, microeconomics and international relations. 

 

Former Research Assistants