In the summer semester 2025, I co-designed and taught a game theory course for political scientists. The course is an introduction to game theory with applications to the analysis of strategic behavior in politics. The course introduces basic concepts of game theory and illustrates them with examples from political science and economics. These includes, for example party competition, collective good problems and legislative negotiations. The class covers main solution concepts in game theory (Nash Equilibrium, Subgame perfect Nash Equlibrium, Bayes Nash Equilibrium, Perfect Bayes Nash Equilibrium).

In the summer semester of 2024, I co-taught a seminar on replication that explored the intersection of political representation and economic inequality. The course aims to deepen students’ understanding of these substantive topics while equipping them with practical skills to critically assess and reproduce quantitative research designs. Students select a published paper of their choice within the two thematic areas and work on replicating – and potentially extending – its empirical analysis. The class places strong emphasis on the practical dimensions of research, from data handling and coding to the interpretation and presentation of results.

In the winter semester 2019/2020, I co-designed and taught a seminar on the economics of fairness. The seminar gives an overview over the flourishing literature on the impact of fairness on behaviour in economic settings. We also look at the empirical insights as well as the economic models and philosophical theories guiding this research field. Additionally, students receive an introduction into the scientific method of conducting economic laboratory experiments to help them understand and interpret the experimental evidence on how fairness considerations shape human behavior.