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Holger Strulik is a prominent economist whose research sits at the intersection of technological change, economic growth, and labor market inequality. His work has made significant contributions to understanding how automation and robotics reshape economies, particularly in their effects on workers across the skill spectrum. Strulik's most influential contributions center on the economic consequences of automation. His 2019 paper, "Innovation, Automation, and Inequality," which has garnered 177 citations, develops a sophisticated R&D-driven growth model with endogenous education to demonstrate how automation differentially affects high-skilled and low-skilled workers — with high-skilled workers complementing machines while low-skilled workers face substitution. This framework provides crucial policy-relevant insights into managing the "race against the machine." His research on robots and reshoring, accumulated across multiple publications and drawing over 190 additional citations, further examines how automation influences global production decisions and the economic prospects of low-skilled labor forces. Together, these works form a cohesive body of research that has become essential reading for economists, policymakers, and students grappling with the distributional consequences of technological progress. Strulik's modeling approaches offer both analytical rigor and practical relevance for navigating an increasingly automated global economy.