editorial and scientific board memberships

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, Editor, since 2018

JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Associate Editor, since 2015

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, programme committee 2024

URBAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN ANNUAL MEETINGS, programme committee, 2015-2017, 2020, 2021

ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY, WINTER MEETINGS, programme committee 2020

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS, Associate Editor, July 2016 – December 2017

RWI ESSEN, research advisory board, since 2019

awards & recognitions

2020, FELLOW OF THE WEIMER SCHOOL, Homer Hoyt Institute, Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics 

2019, HANDELSBLATT ranking of economists from/in German-speaking countries: #83 top 5% overall, #16 under age of 40 

2018, ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY FRISCH MEDAL AWARD for “Economics of density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall, joint with Steve Redding, Daniel Sturm, Nikolaus Wolf

2017, CAPITAL, top 40 under 40 in science and society in Germany 

2017, HANDELSBLATT ranking of economists from/in German-speaking countries: #27 overall, #7 under age of 40, #1 urban/regional/transport/real estate economics