Current and past positionsAssociate Professor in Economics, University of Bristol, 2020-Reader in Economics, University of St Andrews, 2018-2020Senior Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2015-2018Researcher, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2006-2015
Research visitsParis School of Economics, regular visits since 2016 National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
EducationPhD Economics, University of Kiel, 2010MSc Economics, University of Warwick, 2005BA Economics, University of Bamberg, 2003Erasmus exchange student, University of Seville, 2002-2003
Invited seminars (since 2018)2024 Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods; Birkbeck, U London | 2023 U Milan; FU Berlin; U Clermont-Ferrand; Development Economics Network Berlin | 2022 U Maastricht; U West of England; FU Berlin | 2021 Economics of Migration Online Seminar Series; U Hannover | 2020 U Passau; U Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; U Western Australia; Paris School of Economics | 2019 U Munich; U Nottingham; U Bristol; U Strathclyde; Heriot-Watt U; U Pablo de Olavide; U St Andrews; U Dundee; U Hamburg; U Aberdeen | 2018 Brown U; Boston U; U Oxford; Paris School of Economics; U Manchester; U St Andrews; U Göttingen
Conference and workshop presentations (since 2018)2024 PSE-Collège de France Migration Workshop (keynote); King's College London Development Economics Workshop | 2022 The Political Economy of Migration Regimes: Origin and Destination Country Perspectives, Berlin; Development Economics Workshop, Exeter | 2020 EBRD and King’s College London Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration (discussant); Tilburg Symposium Social Cohesion in Ethnically Diverse Societies; Migration and Development Conference, World Bank (discussant) | 2019 ASREC Europe Meeting, Lund; Barcelona GSE Summer Forum, Towards Sustained Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and Human Capital; Annual Conference of the German Economic Association’s Research Group on Development Economics, Berlin | 2018 Migration and Development Conference, Stanford; Workshop on Migration and the Labor Market, Edinburgh; RES Meeting, Sussex
Major grantsWorld Bank Innovation Challenge on Jobs and Migration, USD 280k, 2023-2026ECONtribute (Universities of Bonn and Cologne), EUR 50k, 2023ECONtribute (Universities of Bonn and Cologne), EUR 100k, 2022 3ie Open Window Round 4, USD 778k, 2013-2020German-Israeli Research Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, EUR 72k, 2014-2015Fiat Panis Foundation, EUR 18k, 2011-2012German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, EUR 50k, 2007-2008
RefereeAgricultural Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Annals of Tourism Research, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics E-Journal, Economics of Transition, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, International Migration Review, IZA Journal of Migration, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Demographic Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Human Trafficking, Journal of Politics, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Migration Studies, Oxford Development Studies, Population and Development Review, Population and Environment, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Development Economics, Review of International Economics, Review of International Organizations, Review of World Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, World Bank Economic Review, World DevelopmentGerman Research Foundation (DFG), National Science Foundation (USA), Swiss National Science Foundation
AwardsUniversity Research Fellowship, University of Bristol, 2021-2023Prize for Scientific Excellence, German Economic Association’s Research Group on Development Economics, 2017Selected as Young Economist for the Lindau Nobel Price Meetings, 2011Shiv Naths Prize for the best performance in development economics, University of Warwick, 2005
Portraits and interviews🎤Ambitionierte Auslända Podcast, 2024 (in German and quite personal)Portrait in Leibniz Magazine, 2016 (in German)