felix ubl

I am a 27-year-old economist based in Vienna, currently working at E-Control, Austria’s energy regulator, while pursuing a PhD at WU Vienna. My focus is primarily on applied market design. How do we get everyone to do what they are supposed to do, and what should they be doing in the first place? Questions I should be asking myself more often. In my spare time, I build tools that run mostly on vibes (workshop.fubl.org), and spend far too long generalizing problems, dreaming of the one true solution that might solve them all.

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curriculum vitae

Felix Ubl

Work Experience

since Jul 2025EconomistE-Control, Vienna, Austria Analysis and further development of the regulatory framework.
Mar 2026 to Aug 2026LecturerVienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
Sep 2023 to Jun 2025Research and teaching associateVienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Taught undergraduate game theory. Research in experimental economics and market design.
Sep 2021 to Aug 2022Junior analystMag. Peter Voithofer GmbH, Vienna, Austria Research, collection and interpretation of data on economic sectors across Austria and Europe.
Oct 2017 to Jun 2018Civilian serviceCity of Vienna, Municipal Department 11, Vienna, Austria Supported social pedagogues in a residential group home for children of all ages.

Education

since 2024PhD, Economics and Social SciencesVienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Dissertation: Essays in Market Design.
2022 to 2023MSc, Behavioural EconomicsUniversity of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Thesis: Explaining the presence and absence of the sunk cost effect.
2019 to 2022BSc, EconomicsUniversity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Thesis: How to not spoil the broth: An N-player market entry game.
2018 to 2019BSc, Statistics and Mathematics in EconomicsTU Wien, Vienna, Austria Discontinued.
2009 to 2017MaturaBG/BRG Billrothstraße 73, Vienna, Austria

Research

since 2025Effects of the 2019 school reform in ViennaVienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria With Ben Greiner and Anita Zednik. Part of my PhD.
since 2024Redesigning the specialisation match at WU ViennaVienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria With Ben Greiner. Part of my PhD.

Teaching

Summer 2026MicroeconomicsUndergraduate, WU Vienna, 2 SWS
Summer 2026, Summer 2024, Winter 2023/24Game Theory I: Strategic ThinkingUndergraduate, WU Vienna, 2 SWS
Summer 2025Managerial EconomicsGraduate, WU Vienna, 4 SWS

Volunteering

since Jul 2025Doctoral-student representative, WU ViennaAustrian Students' Union (ÖH), Vienna, Austria Elected.
Nov 2022 to Sep 2023Course representative, MSc Economics programmesUniversity of Nottingham Students' Union, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Active memberBehavioural Insights Society, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Jul 2021 to Aug 2022Representative of the Economics Department, University of ViennaAustrian Students' Union (ÖH), Vienna, Austria Elected.

Skills

TechnicalPython (polars, pandas, duckdb, pytorch, fastapi), R (tidyverse), Rust, Microsoft Office
LanguagesGerman (native), English (fluent, written and spoken), French (basic professional)