November 2005 – January 2011 University of Erfurt: PhD candidate (Dr. rer. pol.) Thesis: “Power, competition and voting – an experimental enquiry” (summa cum laude), supervisors: Bettina Rockenbach, Manfred Königstein
10/2002 – 04/2005 University of St. Gallen: Lizentiat (MSc) in Economics; Thesis: “Efficiency wages and O-ring theory”, Supervisors: Simon Gächter, Jean-Robert Tyran
09/2000 – 06/2002 London School of Economics and Political Science: Diploma in Economics
10/1998 – 08/2000 Witten/Herdecke University: Intermediate Diploma in Economics & Business Administration
since 07/2015 University of Oldenburg: post-doctoral researcher (post-doc) at the Institute of Philosophy (Mark Siebel) as part of the DFG Research Group “Needs-based Justice and Distribution Procedures”
10/2011 – 07/2015 University of Cologne: post-doc at the Chair of Experimental and Behavioural Economics (Bettina Rockenbach)
10/2010 – 09/2011 University of Erfurt: post-doc at the Chair of Microeconomics (Bettina Rockenbach)
June 2009 – August 2010 J-PAL / Harvard Business School: Research Director in Zambia for the project “No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public Service Delivery”
01/2007 – 05/2009 University of Erfurt: research assistant (25%) at the Chair of Microeconomics
11/2003 – 10/2004 University of St Gallen: research assistant (35%) to Jörg Baumberger (economics)
Employment in applied research, consultancy and international development
June 2009 – August 2010 J-PAL / Harvard Business School: field research director in Zambia for the project “No margin, no mission? A field experiment on incentives for public service delivery” (Principal Investigators: N. Ashraf, O. Bandiera and K. B. Jack).
08/2005 – 09/2005 Monitor Company (Zurich): intern at a global management consultancy
May 2005 – July 2005 Frontier Economics (London and Cologne): temporary research assistant at an economic consultancy
10/2001 – 04/2002 International Centre for Small Hydro Power (Hangzhou, China): intern at an international organisation in the field of renewable energy
Scholarships
2000–2001 Scholarship for Great Britain from the German Academic Exchange Service
1999–2008 Scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (including doctoral studies)
