Health Economist

Health and behavioral economics

I will join the University of Cologne's Department of Business Administration and Health Care Management in July 2026 to complete a Project funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 566667001 ) about the "Understanding Donation Costs and Stem-Cell Donor Behaviour". This is in cooperation with my great coauthors Dr. Susanne Seitz (DKMS Germany), Prof. Daniel Wiesen, Prof. Patrick Kampkötter, and Prof. Mario Macis. 

My research broadly covers the economic foundations of prosocial behavior in organizational and health contexts, leveraging data sets with behavioral measures (e.g. preferences and information), behavioral interventions (e.g. sorting and motivating stem cell donors), and prosocial and health outcomes (e.g. stem cell donations, helping). 

I am involved in ongoing work with DKMS Germany, the largest recruiter of stem cell donors in Germany, on the behavioral economics of stem cell donor availability. Here, I have worked on identifiying how behavioral interventions shape donor follow-through, once already registered to donate. We are currently researching the impact of donor information on donor follow-through. 

Prior to my current position, I was a PostDoc in Essen, Germany, at the Chair of Health Economics led by Martin Karlsson, and a PhD student supervised by Patrick Kampkötter and co-supervised by Valeria Merlo in Tübingen.

I was lead organizer of the Essen Health Economics Seminar for two years, which had a very broad range of international speakers.