Curriculum Vitae

Current Academic Positions 

03/2024 – present University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Department of Business and Economics, Professor of Economics (W2)

05/2024 – present Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), Researcher

Academic Affiliations & Honors

02/2024 – present CESifo Research Network, Affiliate

04/2023 – present IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Research Affiliate

11/2023 – present Mannheim Institute for Financial Education (MIFE), Associated Researcher

12/2021 – present G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network, Research Fellow

Research Visits

03/2025 – 09/2025 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) (Host: Annamaria Lusardi), Palo Alto  [scheduled]

01/2024 ifo/CESifo Visiting Researcher Program (Host: Ludger Wößmann), Munich

Past Academic Positions 

01/2023 – 03/2024 University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Department of Business and Economics, Assistant Professor (W1)  [positive W2 Tenure Review in 10/2023]

10/2017 – 12 / 2022 University of Koblenz-Landau, Department of Business and Economics, Assistant Professor (W1) (W2 Tenure Track)  [mid-term review in 08/2020] 

06/2015 – 12/2020 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Department of International Economics, Research Associate 

04/2014 – 09/2017 University of Kiel (CAU Kiel), Department of Political Science, Research Associate 

Education

06/2017 Doctoral Degree in Economics and Social Sciences (Dr. sc. pol., summa cum laude), Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Kiel 

02/2014 Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Economics/Politics and English, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel

05/2012 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics/Politics and Anglistics/North American Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Kiel

2010 Undergraduate Studies in Economics and Political Science, Hawaii Pacific University, USA

Refereeing

Served more than 40 journals, including:

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics – Review of Economics and Statistics (4x) – Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics – Management Science (4x) – Journal of Development Economics – World Bank Economic Review – Economics of Education Review (4x) – Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (4x) – Economic Inquiry – Journal of Banking and Finance – World Development –  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics – Journal of Economic Psychology – Journal of Pension Economics and Finance – Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing (7x)

Grant Proposal Reviewer

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (2023)

Joachim Herz Foundation (2023)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Grant Agreement No. 10103440 (2022/2023)

Education University of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund for Better Living

Administrative Service

Head of the Department of Business and Economics at RPTU (Landau) (since 10/2023)

Chairperson of the ethics committee of the Faculty of Cultural and Social sciences at RPTU (since 04/2022)

Deputy member of the Accreditation Committee at RPTU (since 02/2023)

Deputy head of the two-subject bachelor study program at RPTU (since 10/2022)

Head of the Department of Business and Economics at University of Koblenz-Landau (04/2018 – 09/2019)

External Reviewer of the study program in “Business and Economics” at Karlsruhe University of Education (PH Karlsruhe) (07/2019)

Other Professional Service

Member of the executive committee of the Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network  (G53 Network) (since 11/2022)

Member of the DFG-funded scientific network AFin - Action-based Financial Literacy – Conceptualization, Assessment and Validation (since 03/2022)

Executive director of the German Association for Economic Education (2023 – 2025)

Spokesperson of the Young Researcher Group of the German Association for Economic Education (2014 – 2018)

Led 4-day workshop on quantitative methods using R (joint with Luis Oberrauch), Joachim Herz Foundation (09/2023)

Led two-day workshop on test theory (joint with Luis Oberrauch), Joachim Herz Foundation (09/2022)

Led two-day workshop on academic writing (joint with Taiga Brahm), Joachim Herz Foundation (05/2021)

Mentor of a group of school students at the Young Economic Summit 2018 (joint with Helke Seitz)

Academic Consulting

Aflatoun International

University of Chicago Financial Education Initiative

George Washington University

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Stiftung Deutschland im Plus