Hi, and welcome to my website.

I am a development economist, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM). I studied economics at the University of Freiburg and psychology at the University of Hagen. I obtained my PhD degree in economics from the University of Göttingen. My dissertation called "The causes and consequences of violent conflict" was supervised by the professors Krisztina Kis-Katos, Marcela Ibañez Diaz and Andreas Fuchs.

I am working on research projects in the fields of the economics of conflict and health in developing countries.  I am generally passionate about and motivated to understand how political, economic, and psychological factors shape human behavior and human living conditions. 

My research uses methods of applied microeconometrics. I often utilize geospatial data and apply quasi-experimental and experimental methods for causal inference, such as high dimensional fixed effects models, instrumental variable approaches, difference-in-differences designs, but also laboratory and field experiments.