Curriculum Vitae

 

Research Interests

  • Economics of innovation
  • Firm formation
  • Mittelstand firms
  • Economics of migration
  • Eonomics of education
  • Spatial econometrics
  • Applied macroeconometrics

 

Professional Experience

  • April 2022 - April 2023: Maternity leave
  • Oct 2021 - March 2022: Visiting professor at University Augsburg
  • Since July 2018: Postdoc researcher, Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation (CEIT) at Ruhr University Bochum
  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020: Maternity leave
  • May 2016 - June 2018: Postdoc researcher, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
  • Jan 2013 - Jan 2016: Editorial assistant of Review of Economics
  • Jun 2012 - May 2016: Junior researcher, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
  • Jul 2010 - May 2012: Research and teaching assistant, Hochschule Ruhr West, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Nov 2009 - Jun 2010: Research assistant, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), Tübingen

 

Academic Education

  • Jun 2012 - May 2016: PhD student, Helmut Schmidt University, Degree: Dr. rer. pol.
  • Oct 2003 - Jan 2009: Economics, University of Tübingen, Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt

 

Stays Abroad

  • Oct 2016 - Nov 2016: Research visit at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • Feb 2009 - May 2009: Spanish language course and voluntary work, Quito, Tena, San Cristóbal, Ecuador

 

Teaching

  • Empirical Research in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, seminar, Master level
  • Organization and Innovation, seminar, Bachelor level
  • Econometrics, lecture, Bachelor level
  • Applied economics, seminar, Bachelor level
  • Empirical economics I, lecture, Bachelor level
  • Empirical economics I, tutorial, Bachelor level
  • Empirical economics II, tutorial, Master level
  • Female entrepreneurship, seminar, Master level
  • Assisting students in writing essays and theses, Bachelor and Master level

 

Scientific Computer Skills

  • R
  • STATA
  • RegioGraph
  • LaTeX
  • Access
  • MSOffice

 

Conference and Seminar Talks

  • Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises? Empirical Evidence from the Great Recession, presentation at the IfM Forum at the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn, 7th June 2022
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity, presentation at the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik 2017 in Vienna, Austria
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity, presentation at the 3rd Workshop on Spatial Dimensions of the Labour Market at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) 2017 in Mannheim, Germany 
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity, presentation at the Conference on Economic, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 2017 in Augsburg, Germany
  • Innovation and Immigration - Insights from a Placement Policy, poster presentation at the IP Statistics for Decision Makers Conference 2016 in Sydney, Australia
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity, presentation at the Brown Bag Seminar at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne, 3rd November 2016, Melbourne, Australia
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity, presentation at the IAB-Colloquium at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), 14th April 2016, Nuremberg, Germany
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity - Lessons for Policy, presentation at the Brown Bag Seminar at TU Dresden, 12th October 2015, Dresden, Germany
  • The Importance of Mittelstand Firms for Regional Apprenticeship Activity - Lessons for Policy, presentation at the Annual Scottish Economic Society Conference 2015 in Perth, UK
  • Governance, Firm Size and Innovative Capacity. Regional Empirical Evidence for Germany, presentation at the Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik 2014 in Hamburg, Germany
  • Governance, Firm Size and Innovative Capacity. Regional Evidence for Germany, presentation at the Annual Scottish Economic Society Conference 2014 in Perth, UK
  • Governance, Firm Size and Innovative Capacity. Regional Evidence for Germany, presentation at the postgraduate workshop at Helmut Schmidt University and Hamburg Institute of International Economics 2013, Hamburg, Germany
  • Governance, Firm Size and Innovative Capacity. Regional Evidence for Germany, presentation at the CESifo Regional Economics Workshop 2013 in Dresden, Germany