Personal

Jan Ditzen is  Assistant Professor (RTD-A) at the 

, Bolzano, Italy and a visiting researcher at 

, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Before he was a Forschungsassistent (Postdoc) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano under the supervision of 

 and from 2017 to 2020 a Research Associate at the 

Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy (CEERP)

 at Heriot-Watt University. He obtained a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, a Master in Economics from Hamburg University and a Bachelor in Economics from Mannheim University.

His research interests are in the field of Applied Econometrics with a focus on Panel-Time Series and Spatial Econometrics and Growth Empirics. He has also an interest in Growth Theory, Simulation Studies and the implementation of econometric methods into statistical software.

Since 2021 he is serving as Co-Editor/Digital editor of 

GSID workshop: Introduction to panel time series