Michela Giorcelli

Professor of Economics, UCLA

Students

Advising Ph.D. students is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. Below are my current and former students. I welcome inquiries from prospective Ph.D. students interested in economic history and applied microeconomics.

Current Ph.D. Students

2029
Talia Lieberman [Primary Advisor]
Leonardo Marongiu
2028
Arun Ramesh [Primary Advisor]
2027
Jacopo Ballabio [Primary Advisor]
Fanwen Zhu [Primary Advisor]

Former Students

2026
Manfredi Aliberti — post-doc, Max Planck Institute
2025
Gabriele Cristelli — LSE Geography
2024
Daniel Perez — MITRE
Gaia Spolverini — post-doc, University of Navarra, Pamplona
2023
Maria Victoria Barone — Notre Dame
Ariadna Jou — University of Chile
Nicole Gorton — Center for Analytics, U.S. State Department
2022
Lorenzo Cattivelli — Cornerstone Research
Benjamin Freyd — Cornerstone Research
Fernanda Rojas — University of Wisconsin-Madison, after Harvard post-doc
Juan Rojas — Charles River
Boxiao Zhang — Renmin University of China
2021
Xuanyu Iris Fu — Cornerstone Research
Jingyi Huang — Brandeis University, after Harvard post-doc
Zhihao Xu — Institute of Economics, Tsinghua University
Fangzhu Zhou — Amazon
2020
Vladimir Pecheu — post-doc, Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Diana Van Patten — Yale SOM, after post-doc at Princeton
2019
María Lucía Yanguas — Cornerstone Research