Short Bio

Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

Topics: Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

Fall 2025: Research Stay at University College London Social Research Institute hosted by Alex Bryson 

Topics: Labor Economics, Industrial Relations

Spring 2023: Research Stay at MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) hosted by Nathan Wilmers 

Topics: Labor Economics, Industrial Relations

Fall 2019: Research Stay at Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University hosted by Henry Farber 

Topics: Labor Economics, Industrial Relations

2020 - 2024 Research Associate at Kiel University, Chair of Public Finance

Topics: Public Economics, Experimental Economics, and Teaching

2017 - 2020: Research Associate at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK)

Topics: Labor Economics, Short-Time Work, Labor Markets in Crisis, Evaluation of the Minimum Wage on behalf of the German Minimum Wage Commission.

2015 - 2016: Student Research Assistance at University Hamburg, Chair of Applied Econometrics

Topics: Data preparation and forecast evaluation.

Fall 2013 and Summer 2014: Internship at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK) Labor Economics Department

Topics: Macroeconomic analysis of the labor market and support of the labor market forecast.

2024: PhD Quantitative Economics Student at Kiel University - "Essays on Management Opposition and Unionization"

Topics: Experimental Labor Economics

Supervisors: Menusch Khadjavi and Jens Ruhose

2017: M.Sc. Economics at Kiel University

Thesis: „Unemployment Stigma and the Minimum Wage Exemption - Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany“.

2014: B.A. Socioeconomics specialization Economics at University Hamburg, Germany

Thesis: „Unemployment, Institutions and Shocks – An Empirical Analysis of the Structural Unemployment in Europe”.

2013: B.Sc. in Business and Economics, Linnaeus University (Växjö), Sweden

Thesis: “An Empirical Analysis of the Phillips Curve: A Time Series Exploration of Germany”.