Department of Strategy and Innovation

Astrid is a PhD Fellow at the Department of Strategy and Innovation. Her PhD thesis, “Three Essays on Gender Disparities in Academic Knowledge Creation and Diffusion”, explores questions around the causes and effects of gender disparities in science funding and dissemination.

The first chapter, "From the Ivory Tower to Capitol Hill: Which Academics Get a Voice in Congress?", examines academic economists’ engagement with public policymakers and utilize a policy change in Congress, to estimate the causal effect of reducing opportunity costs on the representation of women and geographically remote researchers. The second chapter, "Mechanisms Driving the Gender Gap in Academic Grant Requests", examines the causes of gendered heterogeneity in grant funding applications. The third chapter, "Gender Disparities in Academic Expertise", explores supply side factors contributing to the low representation of female scientists as experts in the public debate and policy advising.

Astrid's PhD is supervised by Valentina Tartari (Stockholm School of Economics) and H.C. Kongsted (Copenhagen Business School). She holds a Bachelor’s degree (BA) from the University of Southern Denmark in International Business Communication in English (International Marketing) and a Master’s degree (MA) from Copenhagen Business School in International Business Communication (Intercultural Marketing).