Phillip Heiler
Senior Data Scientist Obsidianfund.ai
Quantitative Modeling & Causal Analytics Lead Obsidianfund.ai
Expertise
- Causal Inference
- Heterogeneity Modeling
- Partial Identification
- Nonparametric Econometrics
- Shrinkage Estimation
- Economics of Education
- Causal Machine Learning
- Semiparametric Econometrics
Appointments Experience
2009-2012
Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Konstanz
2012-2014
Master of Science in Economics (with distinction), University of Konstanz
2015
Visiting Student, University of St. Gallen
2014-2019
Doctor of Economics (Dr.rer.pol.) in Decision Sciences (summa cum laude), University of Konstanz
2019-2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University
2022>
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University
2023-2024
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Dep. of Economics, Harvard University
2025>
Quantitative Modeling & Causal Analytics Lead, Obsidianfund.ai
Publications
2021, Journal of Econometrics
2021, Journal of Econometrics
2022, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
2024, Journal of Econometrics
2025, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
Awards & Honours
2021
Airbus Group Research Prize “Claude Dornier” for excellent research
2022
DStatG Young Researcher Award for best publication developed within a doctoral thesis
2023
Labour Prize (ICEEE2023) for best young scientist paper in Microeconometrics
2024
Structural Models of Skill Formation and Policy Forecasting (DKK 70,000,000 total).
2024 – 2026
Novel Methods for Partial Identification in Observational and Experimental Studies.
Independent Research Fund Denmark Research Project (DKK 2,848,013) with B.Veliyev.
