Curriculum Vitae
Current position
- Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Freiburg, Department of Economics, since 2023
Previous positions
- Research and Teaching Assistant | University of Freiburg, Department of Economics, 2018–2022
- Freelance Data Scientist | Expert Network GmbH/Roland Berger (remote), 2022
- Research Assistant | European Central Bank, Financial Research Division, 2015–2016
Education
- Dr.rer.pol. (Ph.D. in Economics) | University of Freiburg, 2022
- M.Phil. Economics and Finance | Bocconi University, 2017
- M.Sc. Economics | University of Freiburg, 2016
- B.Sc. Economics | University of Freiburg, 2012
Publications
“Young people’s mental and social distress in times of international crisis: evidence from helpline calls, 2019-2022”, with Marius Brülhart and Rafael Lalive. Scientific Reports 13, 11858 (2023).
Stata codePNAS News Feature“Mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed by helpline calls”, with Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive and Stephanie Reich. Nature 600: 121-126 (2021).
PDFStata codeBehind the paperCoronapodNature News&Views“Class warfare: Political exclusion of the poor and the roots of social-revolutionary terrorism, 1860-1950”, with Tim Krieger and Daniel Meierrieks. Defence and Peace Economics 32(6): 681-697 (2021). Also published in: On Terrorist Groups — Formation, Interactions, Survivability and Attacks (eds.: K. Gaibulloev and T. Sandler, Routledge, 2023).
Replication files“Lost in lockdown? COVID-19, social distancing, and mental health in Germany”, with Stephanie Reich (née Armbruster). Covid Economics, Vetted and Real-Time Papers 22: 117-153 (2020)
Teaching
Master-level, in English
- Migration Economics, 2024
- Econometric Analysis of Conflict Data with R, 2023
- Topics in Institutional Economics, 2020-2023
- Global Economic Governance, 2019
- Economics of Conflict (with Stata tutorial), 2018
- Advanced Microeconomics (Game Theory), 2018
- Intermediate Econometrics, 2014
Bachelor-level, in German
- Microeconomics, 2019–2023
- Law and Economics, 2019-2023
- Macroeconomics, 2011–2013
Thesis supervision
- Bachelor’s and master’s theses in economics (approx. 7 per year), 2018–2024
Other activities
- Field Specialist/Research Evaluation Manager for “The Unjournal”, 2024
- Co-organizing FRIAS junior researcher conference “Understanding the Rise of Autocrats in the 21st Century: Digital Propaganda, Populism, and (Hybrid) Warfare”, 2024
- Peer-review: Reviewed submissions for Economics and Human Biology, Scientific Reports, SSM Population Health, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal of Personality, PeerJ
- Organized the Association of Freiburg Economists (FWW) research seminar, 2019–2021
- Organized the lecture series “Unternehmens- und Unternehmergeschichten” with local business leaders for Bachelor students, 2018–2024
Grants & awards
- Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Preis (university award for outstanding doctoral theses in economics, donated by Deutsche Bank AG), 2023
- Swiss National Science Foundation/NCCR LIVES ‘Seeds of LIVES’, funding for “Covid-19, stay-at-home orders, and revealed vulnerability: Evidence from crisis helplines” (with Marius Brülhart, Rafael Lalive, and Stephanie Reich), 2020
- Bocconi University merit-based fellowship, 2016–2017
- Friedrich-August-von-Hayek-Preis (master), 2017
Conference & seminar presentations
- Economics of Mental Health Workshop | London, UK, 2023
- Meeting of the Young Political Economists in Europe | Wengen, Switzerland, 2023
- 38th Columbia University COVID-19 Virtual Symposium, 2022
- Economics Brown Bag Seminar | Würzburg, Germany, 2021
- 19th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference | The Hague, Netherlands, 2019
- 4th Workshop on Insights into Political Economy | Bayreuth, Germany, 2021
- 11th Beyond Basic Questions Workshop | Gengenbach, Germany, 2018
- 3rd Workshop on Insights into Political Economy | Berlin, Germany, 2018
- European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting | Budapest, Hungary, 2017