Hannes Schwandt is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) and at the Department of Economics (courtesy appointment). He is also an Associate Director at the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Before joining Northwestern, he spent one year as Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University, three years as Jacobs Assistant Professor at University of Zurich, and three years as a post-doc at Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. He received a PhD in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2012, a MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2007 and a BSc in Economics from University of Munich (LMU) in 2006.

Hannes' research interests are in the fields of Health Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconometrics.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in November 2011 and became a Research Fellow in July 2014.