Economic Growth, Development Economics

Professional Experience

• since September 2010: Research Assistant at the Chair in Economic Policy at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• August 2007 - December 2007: Student Research Assistant with the economic consultancy "Copenhagen Economics", Copenhagen
• April 2005 - February 2006: Student Assistant at the Chair in Public Finance at the University of Göttingen 

Education

• since September 2010: Doctoral Student at the Chair in Economic Policy at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• September 2006 - December 2009: University of Copenhagen, Master of Science in Economics
• September 2004 - February 2005: Exchange student at the University of Salamanca
• October 2002 - July 2006: University of Göttingen, Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Scholarships / Grants

• June 2011 - July 2011: Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), travel grant for the participation at the Barcelona Macroeconomics Summer School 2011, Spain
• September 2004 - February 2005: ERASMUS grant

• Seminar "Quantitative Methods in Economics" in the terms 2012, 2012/13 and 2014 at KIT
• Introduction to Economic Policy (teaching assistant) in the summer term 2012, 2013 and 2014 at KIT
• Seminar "Bean or bean-to-cup coffee machine? Determinants of economic growth and development in a globalized world" in the summer term 2011 at KIT
• Endogenous Growth Theory (teaching assistant) in the winter term 2010/2011, 2011/12 and 2012/13 at KIT
• Microeconomics I and II (tutor) in the summer term 2005 and winter term 2005/2006 at the University of Göttingen