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Curriculum Vitae

Positions
2009 - today
Full Professor of Macroeconomics (W3), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, since July 2009
2008 - 2009
Lecturer in Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2002 - 2008
Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent C1), Chair of Macroeconomics (Prof. Andreas Schabert), University of Dortmund
2001 - 2002
Research and teaching assistant (Prof. Heinz Holländer), Chair of Macroeconomics, University of Dortmund
1998 -1999
Student research and teaching assistant (Prof. Jürgen Eichberger), Chair of Microeconomics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Academic career
2008
Habilitation (venia legendi in economics), Technische Universität Dortmund, thesis “Subjective variables in macroeconomics: moods and expectations”
2007
Barcelona LeeX Experimental Economics Summer School in Macroeconomics,, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
2002
Ph.D in economics (supervisors: Prof. Heinz Holländer, Prof. Wolfgang Leininger, Prof. Wolfram Richter), University of Dortmund
1999 - 2002
Doctoral program in economics "Resource Allocation, Economic Policy and Collective Decisions", University of Dortmund
1999
Diploma in Economics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
1994 - 1999
Student of economics at Saarland University, Universidad de Sevilla, and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Research focus

Behavioral economics
experimental economics
complexity economics
innovation
expectations
regional economics
climate change
economic methodology

Memberships

Verein für Socialpolitik
Mitglied des Fakultätsrats der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, seit Oktober 2011
Organisator der Internationalen Sommerschule Bochum, seit Oktober 2009