Marina Friedrich (she/they) is a tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Econometrics and Data Science and a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. Marina holds a PhD degree from Maastricht University (2020). A pdf version of her thesis can be found here. Before coming to VU, Marina did a two year PostDoc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). Her expertise is therefore interdisciplinary and focuses on making econometric methods more suitable and accessible to study issues related to climate change.

In their current research, Marina wants to bridge the gap between econometrics and climate sciences. As a Veni Laureate from the Dutch Research Council's Talent Scheme (NWO), she works on making statistical and econometric methods more suitable and accessible for climate researchers. Examples of their work include studying the changing sensitiviy of crop yields to climate variables and understanding past and future developments of atmospheric ethane, an important indicator of atmospheric pollution. 

Marina's work is interdisciplinary and she actively collaborates on various projects with climate scientists from different fields. Within econometrics, her expertise is in time series and panel data econometrics. More specifically: how to model relationships that are varying over time, how to measure uncertainty in such models using bootstrapping, how to handle missing data and how to uncover trends in noisy data.

Marina teaches techniques in econometrics, statistics and data science on BSc and MSc level. She has supervised a large number of BSc and MSc theses and coordinated the theses process in the climate econometrics track of the master. Since 2022, she is part of the programme committee of the Master in Econometrics and Operations Research. 

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