CV

MEMBERSHIPS 

Standing Committee on Development Economics, German Economic Association ("Verein für Socialpolitik")

Campus-Institut Data Science (CIDAS), University of Göttingen

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 

Department of Economics, University of Göttingen

• Interim for Juniorprofessor of Development Economics, 10/2023 – 09/2024

• Dorothea-Schlözer Postdoctoral Fellow, from 03/2019 

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Project: Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW), 01/2016 – 02/2019

University of California, Berkeley

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 01/2020 – 06/2020

Institute for Social Policy, University of Hannover

• Research Fellow, 04/2012 – 12/2015

Institute for Internat. Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen

• Research Fellow, 06/2011 – 03/2012

Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Research Area “Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Development” 

• Research Assistant, 08/2010 – 03/2011 

OTHER APPOINTMENTS 

The World Bank

• Principal Investigator, “ENETAWF”, Randomized evaluation of climate-resilience promoting intervention in Afghanistan, 04/2020 – 06/2021

• Principal Investigator, “SWEEP”, Randomized evaluation of intervention to support female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan, since 06/2018 

• Consultant, “AGEI”, Quasi-randomized evaluation of a youth employment initiative in Nepal), 12/2014 - 04/2015 

• External Researcher, Randomized evaluation of a social safety net pilot program for poor families in Afghanistan, since 10/2020

• External Researcher, “EPAG”, Randomized evaluation of job and business skill training intervention in Liberia, since 12/2018 

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) 

• Co-Investigator, “Gram Varta” Project, Randomized evaluation of a community-based health behavior intervention, India), 03/2015 - 09/2016 

Research Group 756 (now TVSEP), German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Co-Manager and Team Leader, Several lab-in-the-field experiments in Thailand, 07-08/2013

• Team Leader, Large-scale household survey in Thailand, 04-06/2013

Asian Development Bank

• Consulting work, Poverty assessment for Bangladesh, 01-02/2013

German Parliament

• Internship, MdB Hans J. Fell, Spokesman for Energy Policy, 08-10/2007

EDUCATION 

PhD in Economics, University of Göttingen

• DFG Research Training Group “Globalization and Development” and "Global Food", German Research Foundation (DFG), 06/2011 – 05/2016  (Committee: Andreas Wagener, Stephan Klasen, Marcela Ibañez)

Post-Graduate Program, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

• Advanced Studies Program on International Economic Policy Research (“ASP”), 08/2010 – 05/2011