CV

Find my full CV here and my list of publications here.

Personal

Citizenship German.
Languages German (native), English (fluent), French (basic).

Education

2025 Habilitation & venia legendi for economics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.
2014 Dr. rer. pol. (equivalent to PhD in economics), University of Hildesheim, Germany.
2008 Dipl.-Vw. (equivalent to MSc in economics), University of Potsdam, Germany.

Academic positions

since 2025 Senior Lecturer for Economics and Public Administration, DGUV University. Bad Hersfeld, Germany.
since 2025 Reader (Privatdozent), Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.
2022 – 2025 Policy analyst and advisor. PtX Lab Lausitz, Cottbus, Germany.
2014 – 2022 Postdoctoral research associate (equivalent to a fixed-term assistant professor w/o tenure), Department of Economics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany.
2017 – 2020 Member of the faculty council (prior: deputy member).
2013 – 2014 PhD-Student, Chair of Economics and Economic Education, University of Hildesheim, Germany.
08 – 10/2012 Visiting researcher, University of Colorado Boulder, CO (USA).
2008 – 2014 PhD-Student and Research Associate, Chair of Microeconomics, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany.

Awards/Grants

2023 Travel Grant, European Commission.
2017, 2018, 2022 (2x) Conference Travel Grant, BTU Graduate Research School.
2016 – 2018, 2022 Conference Presentation Award for Young Researchers (Vortragsprämie), Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association).

Presentations at conferences (Details)

2025 2025 European Public Choice Society meeting.
2024 Invited Talk, PtX Lab Talk #11.
2023 Annual Research Conference (ARC23), European Commission.
2022 2022 Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA); 5th (Virtual) Conference on the “Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship”; 59th Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society; 2022 European Public Choice Society meeting; 26th Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics.
2021 No presentations at conferences due to CoViD-19 pandemic.
2020 4th Conference on the “Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship”; Invited but canceled: 2020 EPCS meeting.
2019 3rd Conference on the “Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship”; 2019 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society; 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics; 2019 Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association; 2019 Meeting of the Research Committee on Institutional Economics, German Economic Association.
2018 2nd Conference on the “Political Economy of Democracy and Dictatorship”; 2018 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society; 17th session of the Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy; 18th Jan Tinbergen Conference; 2018 Annual Meeting of the German Economic Association; 2018 Meeting of the Research Committee on Institutional Economics, German Economic Association.
2017 43rd Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference; 2017 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society; 21st Annual Conference of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics; 2017 Meeting of the Research Committee on Institutional Economics, German Economic Association.
2016 2016 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society; 2016 Economics and Biology of Contests Conference; 53rd Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society, 64th Annual Conference of the Japan Society of Political Economy.
2015 52nd Annual Meetings of the Public Choice Society; 15th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference.

Press Coverage & Interviews

Boris Johnson, Brexit & Game Theory: France24 (eng. version, also mentioned in The Week )

Professional memberships

  • Verein für Socialpolitik – German Economic Association (esp. standing field committee on institutional economics)
  • European Public Choice Society (EPCS)
  • Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE)
  • American Economic Association (AEA)