I am a Professor of Macroeconomics at Leipzig University. Previously, I was a Senior Research Assistant at ETH Zurich, where I completed my Habilitation, and an Interim Professor at Heidelberg University.
Further affiliations: CESifo Research Network, DFG Research Training Group ECO-N, IWH Halle Institute for Economic Research, Central-German Doctoral Program Economics CGDE, and Economics Group at U Leipzig
Research areas: Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Inequality Dynamics; Public Economics; Economic Growth & Climate Change
Important tool: Learn more about the Relaxation Algorithm, which is a numerical method for solving nonlinear boundary-value problems, commonly used to compute transition paths in deterministic growth models.
New: Heat, Mortality, and Life-Cycle Welfare, CESifo Working Paper No. 12885 CESifo Munich, 2026 (with Jannik Reinbold)