Research

I work on higher education, academic labor markets, causal machine learning, and meta-research. I am especially interested in what we can learn when messy administrative, bibliometric, and institutional data are linked carefully.

Publications

  1. Hardaker, A., Asanov, I., Bartos, F., & Bruns, S. B. (2026). No evidence that non-incentivized behavioral interventions effectively mitigate climate change after adjusting for publication bias. PNAS Nexus, pgag150. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag150 | Code and materials

    Earlier version: I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 263.

Working Areas

Academic Careers

Dissertations, publications, mobility, and institutional trajectories in European higher education systems.

Methods

Causal machine learning, entity resolution, econometrics, and reproducible data pipelines.

Meta-Research

Publication bias, robustness, and how evidence changes when selective reporting is modeled explicitly.