CV

Profession

Current

Since 3/2021

Research Professor at IWH (Leibniz Institute)

Since 10/ 2018

Professor of Economics (Chair Empirical Macroeconomics), Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Senior Research Fellow, DAFM, King's Business School King's College London

Past

09/2017-09/2018

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics, King's Business School, King's College London

Deputy Director, DAFM (Data Analytics for Finance and Macroeconomics), King's Business School

10/2016-8/2017

Research Fellow, Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Economics

10/2013-10/2016

Assistant Professor (fixed term contract, positive interim evaluation 2015), London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History

10/2012 - 09/2013

Lecturer,  London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History

10/2008 - 10/2012  

Junior Professor for Economic History Freie Universität Berlin, Department of

Economics (positive evaluation 2011, equivalent to Habilitation)

4/2012-10/2012

Visiting Scholar Stanford University, Department of Economics

9/2007-8/2008

Research Fellow, European University Insitute, Department of Economics   (Max Weber Programme)

Eduction

2008 PhD in Economics Humboldt Universität Berlin

(in addition: visiting graduate student, visiting researcher at Stanford University: 2002,3,5: invited by Avner Greif)

2003 MA Economics, CentER University of Tilburg

2001  MA Economic History University of Zurich

Recent Presentations

2024 University of Manchester

2023 European University Institute

2022 Universita Cattolica de Sacro Cuore, Milano; University of Regensburg 

2020 ASSA San Diego; HU Berlin

2019 HU-Berlin; Kassel University; IWH

2018 Cambridge University; World Economic History Congress Boston

2017 CEPR, Economic History Symposium, Bank of England; King's College London; Cardiff Business School; University College Dublin; University of Bayreuth; Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

2016 ASSA San Francisco; RES University of Sussex; ESSHC University of Valencia; Stanford University; City University London;  European Economic Association Meeting Geneva

2015 University of Cologne; German Congress for Economic History, Muenster;  University of Copenhagen; HU-Berlin; European Historical Economics Society Pisa; London School of Economics

2014 FU-Berlin; University of Mannheim, key note speaker, conference on Late Medieval Economic History

2013 Copenhagen Business School; European University Institute, Florence;  Zurich University

2012 London School of Economics; Zurich University; University Carlos III, Madrid; University Valencia; University of Mannheim; European Economic Association Meeting; Econometrics Society Meeting Malaga

2011 European University Institute, Florence; University Paris X; University Heidelberg; FU-Berlin

2010 European Historical Economics Society Dublin, University of Hohenheim

2009 Stanford University; Utrecht University; HU-Berlin; Annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Northwestern University; Annual Meeting of the Cliometrics Society, La Crosse University; European Economic Association Meeting, Glasgow University

Refereeing/ Reports

American Economic Review; Economic History Review; European Economic Review; European Review of Economic History;  Explorations in Economic History;  Journal of Economic Growth; Journal of  Economic History; Journal of Economics; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics; Journal of Economic Issues; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Review of Economic Studies;  Routledge Publisher; Cambridge University Press; Danish Foundation for Independent Research; German Science Foundation; Volkswagenstiftung.