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Raphael Gottweis

Hi, I'm Raphael

I'm a PhD student in Economics at WU Vienna, working on labor economics — homeoffice and AI in particular.

I also teach Public Economics and Labour Economics at WU, and I'm a Research Associate at the Energy Institute at JKU Linz.

Reach me at raphael.gottweis@wu.ac.at or on LinkedIn.

Raphael Gottweis

What I'm currently obsessed with

  • Thinking about how homeoffice doesn't just reshape my own workday, but that of hundreds of thousands of Austrians
  • Falling a little for LLMs, and trying to figure out how to personalize the useful parts without slipping into the bot loop

Background

I studied economics at WU Vienna (BSc, MSc Science Track, top 1% of my cohort), with an exchange semester at ISCTE Business School in Lisbon. During my PhD, I've consulted for the World Bank's EuroCOMP Lab, designing impact evaluations for EU cohesion-policy programs. Before that, during my Master's, I was a student assistant on behavioral economics and public finance projects at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS).

Working with companies and policy

I like research that is useful outside of academia. Some of the organizations I collaborate with:

  • karriere.at
  • Notruf Niederösterreich GmbH
  • Linz Netz GmbH & Netz Oberösterreich GmbH
  • World Bank (EuroCOMP Lab)