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

Experience

since Mar 2026LecturerVienna University of Economics and Business
since Jul 2025EconomistE-Control, Vienna Analysis and further development of the regulatory framework.
Sep 2023 to Jun 2025Research and teaching assistantVienna University of Economics and Business Teaching game theory to bachelor students. Research in experimental economics and market design.
Sep 2021 to Aug 2022Junior analystMag. Peter Voithofer GmbH, Vienna Research, collection and interpretation of data on economic sectors across Austria and Europe.
Oct 2017 to Jun 2018Civil serviceMunicipal Department 11, Child and Youth Services, Vienna 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 Dissertation: Essays in Market Design.
2022 to 2023MSc, Behavioural EconomicsUniversity of Nottingham Thesis: Explaining the presence and absence of the sunk cost effect.
2019 to 2022BSc, EconomicsUniversity of Vienna Thesis: How to not spoil the broth: An N-player market entry game.
2018 to 2019Statistics and Business MathematicsTU Wien Discontinued.
2009 to 2017MaturaBG/BRG Billrothstraße 73, Vienna

Research

since 2025Effects of the 2019 school reform in ViennaWith Ben Greiner and Anita Zednik. Part of my PhD.
since 2024Redesigning the Specialization Match at WU ViennaWith Ben Greiner. Part of my PhD.

Teaching

Summer 2026Microeconomicsbachelor, 2 SWS
Summer 2026, Summer 2024, Winter 2023/24Game Theory I: Strategic Thinkingbachelor, 2 SWS each
Summer 2025Managerial Economicsmaster, 4 SWS

Service

2022 to 2023Course representativeEconomics master's programmes, Nottingham Students' Union
2022 to 2023Active memberBehavioural Insights Society, University of Nottingham
2021 to 2022Doctoral-student representativeWU Vienna, Austrian Students' Union (ÖH), elected
2021 to 2022Representative of the Economics DepartmentUniversity of Vienna, ÖH, elected

Skills

ProgrammingPythonpolars, pandas, duckdb, pytorch, fastapi
Rtidyverse
Rust
LanguagesGermannative
Englishfluent, written and spoken
Frenchbasic professional