Rigissa Megalokomomou
Rigissa Megalokomomou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University and a Research Affiliate at CESifo, and IZA. She obtained her PhD from the University of Warwick in 2016. Her research is in applied micro-economics, focusing on policy-relevant questions in education, gender, and labour economics. She often collects and uses novel administrative or self-collected data. Her research has been funded by the Queensland Government and Harvard Kennedy School. Her research has appeared in top academic outlets, such as the American Economic Review, American Economics Journal: Applied Economics, and Economic Journal, among others. She has received several awards and prizes, including the Young Economist Prize from UniCredit & Universities, a Rising Star award, and multiple Employee Excellence and Research awards, which recognize her as a talented emerging academic producing innovative and impactful research. Her research has received wide media attention and has been featured in The Guardian, The Conversation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Epoch Times, and other media outlets. She is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Population Economics, Economic Papers and Economics Record.
Rigissa Megalokomomou