Contact
Office Hours
Mondays 11.20-12.30 pm, by appointment, in person or virtually. Email to schedule an appointment.
Subject
- Primary: Macroeconomics (esp. growth), Political Economy, Development
- Secondary: applied econometrics, data science, urban and regional economics
Academic appointments:
2022
Tenure-Track-Professor of Macroeconomics and Digital Transformation
Institute of Economics and Law
University of Stuttgart, Germany
2019-2022
Humboldt Foundation Lynen Research Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science & Global School of Policy and Strategy
University of California, San Diego, USA
2015-2022 (on leave 2019-2022)
Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat)
Institute of Macroeconomics
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Other affiliations:
Member of the Research Group on Development Economics (German Economic Association), SoDa Labs at Monash University, AidData Research Consortium, Graduate School on Globalization and Development at the Universities of Göttingen and Hannover (RTG 1723), Maastricht University, UNU-MERIT
Research stays (> 2 weeks):
University of California, San Diego, USA, Aug 2023 -Sep 2023
University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Sep 2019
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
The political geography of cities (with Christian Lessmann and Paul Schaudt). SoDa Laboratories Working Paper Series No. 2021-11, Monash Business School, 2021.
Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting (with R. Hodler and P. Schaudt). CESifo Working Paper No. 9314. CESifo Munich, 2021.
Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries (with Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Brad Parks, Michael Tierney and Austin Strange). CEPR DP14818. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Local majorities: How administrative divisions shape comparative development (with Roland Hodler and Paul Schaudt), Economics Working Paper Series 2110, University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science.
Humboldt Foundation Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for the University of California San Diego, 2019--2022
1st Prize for Excellence in Applied Development Research (Dissertation Award), German Economics Association and KfW Development Bank, 2016
Best "Lightning-talk'' Award at Herrenhausen Conference, VW Foundation, 2015
Top 3% Award, Maastricht University, 2010, 1st of the entire faculty
Fulbright fellowship, 2007-2008
Terra incognita, Universität Stuttgart (50,000 EUR), project coordinator, with Gerda Asmus, Raphael Franck, Raphael Heiberger, 2022-2024
Baden-Württemberg/Connecticut Faculty Mobility Program 2023 (2,250 EUR), visit at Yale School of Environment, Sep 2023
Volkswagen Foundation, Cooperative projects Lower Saxony - Israel, "Economic and ideological causes of political violence'" (total 300,000 EUR, with Raphaël Franck and Andreas Fuchs), 2022-2024
RTG 1723 - Globalization and Development, Universities of Göttingen and Hannover, internal pool funds, 4800 EUR (with Tobias Korn and Gerda Asmus), 2019
German Research Foundation (DFG) grant for "Shining (New) Light on Regional Inequality, Convergence and Development" (share 186,400 EUR, total 569,000 EUR, co-PI, with Melanie Krause and Christian Lessmann), 2017--2021
EC (DG DEVCO) grant (share about 25,000 EUR, total 50,000 EUR, 6 months, with Denis de Crombrugghe and Augustin Fosu), 2015