Felix Ubl
Work Experience
| since Jul 2025 | Economist | E-Control, Vienna, Austria Analysis and further development of the regulatory framework. |
| Mar 2026 to Aug 2026 | Lecturer | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria |
| Sep 2023 to Jun 2025 | Research and teaching associate | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Taught undergraduate game theory. Research in experimental economics and market design. |
| Sep 2021 to Aug 2022 | Junior analyst | Mag. Peter Voithofer GmbH, Vienna, Austria Research, collection and interpretation of data on economic sectors across Austria and Europe. |
| Oct 2017 to Jun 2018 | Civilian service | City of Vienna, Municipal Department 11, Vienna, Austria Supported social pedagogues in a residential group home for children of all ages. |
Education
| since 2024 | PhD, Economics and Social Sciences | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria Dissertation: Essays in Market Design. |
| 2022 to 2023 | MSc, Behavioural Economics | University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Thesis: Explaining the presence and absence of the sunk cost effect. |
| 2019 to 2022 | BSc, Economics | University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Thesis: How to not spoil the broth: An N-player market entry game. |
| 2018 to 2019 | BSc, Statistics and Mathematics in Economics | TU Wien, Vienna, Austria Discontinued. |
| 2009 to 2017 | Matura | BG/BRG Billrothstraße 73, Vienna, Austria |
Research
| since 2025 | Effects of the 2019 school reform in Vienna | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria With Ben Greiner and Anita Zednik. Part of my PhD. |
| since 2024 | Redesigning the specialisation match at WU Vienna | Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria With Ben Greiner. Part of my PhD. |
Teaching
| Summer 2026 | Microeconomics | Undergraduate, WU Vienna, 2 SWS |
| Summer 2026, Summer 2024, Winter 2023/24 | Game Theory I: Strategic Thinking | Undergraduate, WU Vienna, 2 SWS |
| Summer 2025 | Managerial Economics | Graduate, WU Vienna, 4 SWS |
Volunteering
| since Jul 2025 | Doctoral-student representative, WU Vienna | Austrian Students' Union (ÖH), Vienna, Austria Elected. |
| Nov 2022 to Sep 2023 | Course representative, MSc Economics programmes | University of Nottingham Students' Union, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| Oct 2022 to Sep 2023 | Active member | Behavioural Insights Society, Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| Jul 2021 to Aug 2022 | Representative of the Economics Department, University of Vienna | Austrian Students' Union (ÖH), Vienna, Austria Elected. |
Skills
| Technical | Python (polars, pandas, duckdb, pytorch, fastapi), R (tidyverse), Rust, Microsoft Office |
| Languages | German (native), English (fluent, written and spoken), French (basic professional) |