Curriculum Vitae

Curiosity is my guiding principle - I want to understand how things work. To this end, I chose a research-focused career after I satisfied my curiosity in public administration.

My main research interests include primary data collection projects, as well as contemporary aspects of migration and spatial economics. More generally, I enjoy working with GIS data. So if one can draw a meaningful map to highlight a phenomenon, I am interested.

Before I joined the University of the West of England as a Senior Lecturer in Economics in 2023, I was a Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. I obtained my PhD in 2017 from Leibniz Universität Hannover, where I researched the interrelation between personality and migration. During my doctoral studies, I was also a member of the DFG-funded Research Training Group ‘Globalization and Development’ and an external consultant to the OECD, investigating post-graduation mobility and labour market integration of internationally mobile students. 

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Research interests

• • Spatial Economics and GIS analyses

  • Migration and student mobility

  • Conflict and cooperation

  • Labour market integration

  • Personality, attitudes, and preferences

  • Wellbeing

  • Survey design and implementation

Academic and research positions

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England,  Bristol Business School (since 07/2023)

Lecturer in Economics, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham Business School (08/2019 - 07/2023)

Postdoctoral researcher & Teaching fellow, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance (07/2017 - 07/2019)

Research and teaching assistant, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Labour Economics (10/2012 - 07/2017)

External consultant with OECD (International Migration Division, 06/2014 - 12/2014)

Education

Leibniz Universität Hannover, PhD in Economics (Thesis title: Personality and migration: A study of decision-making processes in a geo-referenced framework, 2017)

University of Cologne, M.Sc. in Economics (2012)

Warsaw School of Economics, semester abroad (2011-2012)

Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, B.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration (2010)

Federal University of Administrative Sciences, Diploma-Degree in Public Administration (2007)