Assistant Professor of Real Estate, Economics and Finance, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge

Sofie Waltl is Assistant Professor in Real Estate Economics and Finance at the Department of Land Economy and Director of Studies at Murray Edwards College. She is an applied economist interested in housing markets, economic measurement, and inequality research.

Her research focuses on topics in real estate economics and finance as well as inequality. Next to policy and (causal) empirical analyses, she aims for advancing economic measurement and improving statistical methodologies applied.

Before joining the University of Cambridge she had held positions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER), the European Central Bank (Germany), and the University of Graz (Austria). Additionally, she had research visits at the University of California Berkeley (US), DIW Berlin (Germany), WU Vienna (Austria), the National University of Singapore (Singapore), the University of Queensland (Australia) and the University of New South Wales (Australia). Additionally, she has provided consultancy work to the ECB and GIZ.

Her research has been published in various academic journals including Explorations in Economic History, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Management Science, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, The Journal of Economic Inequality and The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Additionally, she has successfully applied for competitive research grants, has been awarded several prices and recognitions, and media outlets worldwide have quoted her research.