Aleš is a Senior Fellow in Energy Macro- & Microeconomics, with over 15 years of experience in central banking, academia, and the financial industry. He holds a Ph.D. from Charles University in Prague and an M.A. from Central European University. He has also held a visiting appointment at Vienna University of Economics and Business. His research interests include theoretical macroeconomics, DSGE modeling, Large Language Models, and AI applications in economics, with publications in journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economic Dynamics, and Economics Letters. Aleš has led successful peer-to-peer workshops on LLM use cases for economists at various central banks and taught a Ph.D. macroeconomics course at the University of Economics in Prague. His current work focuses on modeling relative prices in oil economies and applying LLMs in economics.