Vita
Professional Expercience
since 2021
Project lead “Value of Information”
since 2017
Researcher at the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB) and member of the group Mathematical Modelling at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)
Field of research: value of information, spatial resource economics; optimal control theory for spatial planning and biodiversity; modelling sustainable resource management and suitable policy instruments
since 2014
Research Associate at Bielefeld University, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Chair of Prof. Dr. Herbert Dawid.
since 2001
Member of the CESifo, Research Network, Munich.
2016–2017
Lecturer at Paderborn University, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Field of teaching: mathematics for economists
2009–2014
Associate Professor for Economics (temporary for 5 years) at the Mercator Schoolof Management, University Duisburg-Essen
Fields of teaching: microeconomics, labour economics, public economics, resource and environmental economics
2008–2009
Visiting Full Professor for Public Finance at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt a. M.
Fields of teaching: environmental economics, microeconomics
2003–2009
Hochschuldozentur (equivalent to an Adjunct Associate Professors w/o tenure), Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW), Bielefeld University
Fields of teaching: resource and environmental economics, public economics, microeconomics, capital markets, mathematical methods
2002–2003
Visiting Full Professor at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Economics, University of Heidelberg
Fields of teaching: environmental economics, resource economics, microeconomics
1996–2002
Assistant Professor, IMW, Bielefeld University
University Education
2002
Habilitation at the Department of Economics and Management, Bielefeld University.
Habilitation treaties on the theory of taxation, environmental economics and monopolistic firms.
Awarding of the Facultas docendi and the Venia legendi in Economics.
1996
Doctorate in Economics (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Department of Economics and Management, Bielefeld University.
Thesis: ‘Interjurisdictional Competition and Environmental Policy’.
1992
Diplom-Volkswirt (Master degree in Economics, MSc/Econ).
Thesis: ‘On the Theory of Efficient Provision of Public Goods with an Application to Tutorials’.
Grade: with distinction