Nicolai Suppa is currently a Serra Húnter Assistant Professor (professor lector) at the University of Barcelona, Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics. He is also a Research Associate with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, and a member of EQUALITAS. He holds a PhD in economics from TU Dortmund in Germany, where he also studied economics and sociology.

His research interest is applied welfare economics, including measurement and analysis of multidimensional poverty, subjective well-being, the capability approach, labor economics (in particular the role of employment and unemployment for well-being), and applied econometrics.

He has published articles in Empirical Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Journal of Development Economics, the Review of Income and Wealth, Social Choice & Welfare, Social Science & Medicine, and The Stata Journal.