Curriculum vitae

Education

PhD, Integrated Coastal Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States of America. Expected in 2024.

• Academic fields of interest: Pro-environmental behavior (environmental psychology, behavioral economics), social network analysis, coalition forming and community behavior, use of digital technology for informal education such as Virtual Reality. Currently working on: Understanding human behavior linked to adoption of sustainable infrastructure including feedback processes between the agents involved (human, natural and infrastructure agents) in coastal Eastern North Carolina.

• Research methods: Interviews, focus group interviews, surveys, Agent-based models, Discrete Choice Experiments.

PhD, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Expected in spring 2022.

• Academic fields of interest: Environmental/resource economics, marine resources, coastal ecosystems and estimation of economic impact of climate change as well as education economics and social network analysis. Interested in working on the nexus of social network analysis, education, and environmental outcomes, with regards to economic benefits and policy development. Currently researching about: Social networks and the impact of education on the reception of social support over larger geographical distances.

• Research methods: ordered logit estimations, panel fixed effects models.

MA, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. May 2016.

• Thesis title: “Reverse the Curse - Natural Resources, Institutions and Economic Growth”

• Focus on development economics, GPA: 3.967

MSc, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and Environmental Management, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. February 2018.

• Thesis title: "Is Close equal to Close by? Non-monetary Benefits of Education, Spatial Dispersion of Social Networks, Migration, and Bridging Geographical Distances"

• Focus on resource economics and project management, GPA: 3.9

BSc, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. September 2014.

• Thesis title: "Political Institutions: Cause or Effect of Economic Growth and Development Exemplified by Colonialized Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa".

• Focus on international economics, GPA: 3.3

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany, ongoing since April 2018.

Teaching assistant: Intermediate Macroeconomics (Makroökonomik II), Bachelor level. Spring 2018. Empirical Research Methods, Statistics and Econometrics, Master level, Fall 2018. Seminar "Resource and Environmental Economics", Master level, Fall 2018.

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 2015 – 2016.

Teaching assistant: ECON 103: Principles of Microeconomics. Fall 2015, Spring 2016.

Research Experience

Working Papers

Conference Contributions

Professional Skills

Software (proficient): STATA, Microsoft Office programs, CMS (typo3, plone, wordpress), citation programs (Citavi, Mendeley, EndNote), LaTeX

Software (beginner): R, SPSS, Netdraw, UCINET, Gephi

Languages: English (fluent), German (native), Italian (intermediate), Spanish (intermediate), French (basic).

Non-Academic Employment

Intern with GiZ (German development cooperation, Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit) in the project "Transport and Climate Change (TCC)" in Bangkok, Thailand, from September 2016 - February 2017.