Vita
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Academic Career
Since March 2011 | Professor of Finance, University of Bonn |
April 2007 – February 2011 | Professor of Economics, especially financial economics, at the Leibniz University Hannover |
September 2005 – March 2006 | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Finance Department of the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
March 2004 – March 2007 | Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany |
August 2002 – April 2004 | PostDoc, Department of Economics, Chair Prof. Martin Hellwig, Ph.D., University of Mannheim, Germany |
November 2001 | Dissertation (Dr. rer. pol.), Faculty of Economics, University of Münster (summa cum laude), title: “Banks as Delegated Risk Managers.” Advisor: Andreas Pfingsten |
February 1998 – July 2002 | Doctoral Student and Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Banking, Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfingsten, University of Münster, Germany |
January 1998 | Master (Diplom) in mathematics, University of Bonn, grade: 1.0, title: “Parametric Interpolation by Third Degree Polynomial Curves” |
October 1993 – January 1998 | Graduate studies in mathematics, University of Bonn |
October 1991 – July 1993 | Intermediate diplom in mathematics and physics, University of Münster, grades: 1.1 (physics) and 1.0 (mathematics) |
Academic and Professional Experience
June 2007 | Guest Researcher, University of Mannheim |
March 2005 | Guest Researcher, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a.M. |
July 1998 - Ocotber 1998 | Internship, Toyota Kreditbank, Cologne |
Other Professional Activities
Since 2019 | Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy |
Since 2018 | Principal Investigator of the SFB TR 224, “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability” |
Since 2017 | Research Affiliate at the Reinhard Selten Institute |
Since 2012 | Research Fellow at the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research), Programme Area “Financial Economics” |
2012 - 2017 | Member of the SFB Priority Program 1578, “Financial Market Imperfections and Macroeconomic Performance” |
2012 - 2017 | Co-opted Member of the SFB TR 15 “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems” |
2008 - 2013 | Director of the “Hannover Center of Finance” |
2004 - 2007 | Co-opted Member of the SFB TR 15 “Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems” |
2002 - 2004 | Co-opted Member of the SFB 504 “Concepts of Rationality, Decision Making and Economic Modeling” |
2000 - 2001 | Member of the board of examiners for banking business administrators at the Chamber of Commerce, Münster |