Academic and Professional Background

• Since November 2012 professor at University of Hamburg
• 2006-2012 professor of institutional economics and applied microeconomicsat the BSEL
• 2004-2006 visiting professor at the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute of the BSEL
• 2000-2006 project manager and senior researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim
• Research associate and PhD at FU Berlin, postgraduate programme "Applied Microeconomics"
• Graduate of economics at TU Berlin and University of British Columbia