About Us

The course is run by 3 PhD Students in the Department of Economics and the team leader of the Deparment's IT engineering group. The current group designed the inaugural edition of the course in 2016.

Lachlan Deer

Lachlan is a 5th year Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Economics. His research interests lie in empirical industrial organization, quantitative marketing and structural econometrics.

Lachlan leads the following modules:

• Python: Pandas, Numpy, SciPy & Econometrics
• Build Tools: Snakemake
• Databases with SQL

Adrian Etter

Adrian is the team leader of the IT engineering group within the Department of Economics.

Adrian is leading the following modules:

• Introduction to using the Terminal
• Version Control with Git
• Principles of Clean Coding
• Code Profiling and Optimization

Julian Langer

Julian is a 5th year Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Economics. His research interests lie in economic history and applied econometrics.

Julian leads the following modules:

• Python: Basic Python
• R: Basic R, Loading Data into R, Econometrics & Advanced Programming

Max Winkler

Max is a 4th year Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Economics. His research interests lie at the intersection of cultural economics, behavioural economics and development economics.

Max leads the following modules:

• Python: Webscraping
• R: Data Analysis and Plotting, GIS with R,