Krisztina Kis-Katos joined the University of Göttingen as professor for International Economic Policy in 2016. She received her doctoral degree in Economics at the University of Freiburg in Germany and her research interests lie in the fields of applied development economics and political economy. Her recent research projects focus on the effects of globalization and more generally of macro-economic processes or related public policies on a range of social and economic outcomes, including labor market and firm outcomes, land use change and deforestation, or conflict.