Aapo Stenhammar is an a Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation visiting assistant professor at MIT Economics.

He will join the Hanken School of Economics and the Helsinki GSE as an assistant professor in January 2027.

He is also a research fellow at the Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE in Helsinki, Finland.

Aapo received his PhD in Economics from Aalto University and Helsinki GSE, with research visits to UC Berkeley and the IIES at Stockholm University during his doctoral studies.

His research focuses on the interaction between labor markets, public policy, and political responses. He also employs machine learning methods to digitize archived documents and integrate text and images into econometric analysis.

He collaborated closely with IZA's local research team as an Associated Member and remains in the IZA Network as a Research Affiliate.