CV

A short overview of my academic career is given below.

The full CV (PDF), including all publications, presentations, professional and teaching activities, can be downloaded here.

Academic positions

• since 2016 — Full Professor of Managerial Accounting, School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen

• since 2024 (and 2016–2022) — Vice Dean of Studies (Prodekan / Studiendekan Wirtschaftswissenschaft), School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen

• 2023, 2019–2022 — Deputy Head of the School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen

• 2017–2022 — Principal Investigator, DFG Priority Program 1764 “The German Labour Market in a Globalised World”

• 2014–2019 — Associated researcher, DFG research unit “Design and Behavior – Economic Engineering of Firms and Markets”

• 2011–2016 — Assistant Professor, Seminar of Personnel Economics and Human Resource Management, University of Cologne

Education

• 2011 — Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Cologne. Dissertation “Compensation and Performance – Empirical Studies on Wages, Bonus Payments, and Intra-Firm Trainings” (advisors: Torsten Biemann, Bernd Irlenbusch, Dirk Sliwka)

• 2010 — Visiting PhD student, INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau (local supervisor: Harald Hau)

• 2006–2010 — PhD student, University of Cologne (main supervisor: Dirk Sliwka)

• 2000–2006 — Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Business Administration, University of Cologne (Personnel Economics, Energy Economics, Organizational Studies)

Professional activities

• since 2025 — Advisory Board Member, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), research area “Quality of Work and Economic Success”

• since 2024 — Steering Committee, Committee for Organizational Economics, German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik); member since 2016

• since 2016 — Member of the Faculty Council, School Board, Study Commission, Doctoral Committee, Habilitation Committee and Supervisory Board of the Friedrich-List-Stiftung, University of Tübingen

• since 2016 — Affiliated Member, Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB), University of Cologne

• since 2015 — Editor, NEP – New Economics Papers: Human Capital & Human Resource Management

• 2017–2021 — Academic Head, working group “Total Rewards”, Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V.

• 2008–2019 — Managing director and board member, Fördergesellschaft Personalwirtschaftslehre e.V.

Professional memberships

Academy of Management · American Finance Association · Econometric Society · European Accounting Association · European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) · European Economic Association · European Finance Association · German Economic Association of Business Administration (GEABA) · Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft (VHB) · Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association)