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He was then a post-doc at Benny Moldovanu\u2019s Institute for Microeconomics at the University of Bonn for two years before joining the economics department of the University of Montr\u00e9al in 2012, first as an Assistant, then as an Associate Professor. His research interests are in the domain of microeconomic theory and pertain, more specifically, to dynamic incentive problems and strategic information acquisition. 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