Curriculum Vitae

Date of birth: February 16, 1981 in Buchholz/Nordheide, Germany

Marital status: married, two children

Aarhus University, Denmark 

Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Business Economics, since April 2018 

University of Bremen, Germany 

Senior Researcher, Economics Department at the Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), November 2012 – March 2018 (parental leaves from 28 June 2015 to 31 December 2015 and 1 October 2016 to 28 February 2017)

George Mason University, USA 

Visiting Scholar, Center for Study of Public Choice, March – April 2013, March 2014

University of Turku, Finland 

Associate Member, Public Choice Research Center, April 2009 – December 2013 

University of Bayreuth, Germany 

Akademische Rätin (equiv. Assistant Professor), Chair of Microeconomics, Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, April 2009 – October 2012 (parental leave from 1 May 2011 to 15 November 2011) 

University of Hamburg, Germany 

Research Associate, Institute for Allocation and Competition, Department of Economics, March 2006 – March 2009

University of Vilnius, Lithuania 

Guest Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, April – May 2008

University of Hamburg, Germany 

Dr.rer.pol., Economics, March 2006 – April 2009 

Dissertation: “Decision-Making in Committees: Game-theoretic Analysis"

University of Hamburg, Germany 

Diplom-Volkswirt (equiv. Master in Economics), October 2001 – August 2005 

University in Hagen, Germany 

M.Sc. Mathematics – Methods and Models, October 2001 – October 2010

European Public Choice Society

Elected Member of the Board, 2023-2026

Robert Bosch Stiftung

Program Fast Track, 2016 – 2018 

Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg

Associated Junior-Fellow, 2016 – 2018 

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Scholarship Foundation)

Scholarship, 2004 – 2006

DAAD: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service)

Scholarship for Travel and Study in Russia, 08-09/2004

PIREAU - Platform for Inequality Research at Aarhus University 

Seed funding: "The Age Factor: Exploring Credit Allocation and Performance in Age-diverse Teams", 2024, 72 500 DKK

Independent Research Fund Denmark 

Research project 1 grant: "Value in Diversity? Effort and Performance in Group Decision-making", 2023-2026, 2.9 million DKK

AU Centre for Integrative Business Psychology 

Seedcorn Grant “Bad counsel: human vs. machine advice in moral decision-making”, 2021, 30 000 DKK

Interacting Minds 

Seed Grant “Rot from the top? Decisions in hierarchical organizations”, 2019, 68 000 DKK

Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg 

Grant for organization of a conference “The Political Economy of Mixedmember Systems”, 2017, ca. 10 000 €

Grant for the 5th Lindau Meeting of the Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences, 2014,  2 000 €

Central Research Development Fund, University of Bremen

Grant for research project “Power, Distribution and Fairness in Collective Decisions”, 2012,  275 000 €

DFG 

Research grant “Political Representation and Distribution of State Funds”, 2010, 23 500 €

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, Econometrica, European Economic Review, European Journal of Law and Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, European Union Politics, Games and Economic Behavior, German Research Foundation (DFG), Group Decision and Negotiation, Homo Oeconomicus, International Review of Law and Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Operations Research und Decisions, Political Science Research and Methods, Public Choice, Review of International Organizations, Revue d'économie politique, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Social Choice and Welfare

• Member of Departmental Forum, Faculty of Economics and Business Economics, AU

• Member of tenure committee 2019, Faculty of Economics and Business Economics, AU

• Organizer of conference “The Political Economy of Mixed-member Systems”, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg 2017

• Deputy Representative for Women, Faculty of Law, Business and Economics, University of Bayreuth, 2009 - 2012

• Member of the Program Committee, International Symposium on “Economics of Conflict”, Sultan Qaboos University and German University of Technology in Oman, March 2015

• Member of the Local Organizing Committee (for fundraising and advertisement), XII. Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2007 at the University of Hamburg

• PhD student: Martin Štrobl (main advisor) – Placement: Post-doc, University of Birmingham

• Committee member: Rune Vølund (chair), Jonas Kaiser (chair)

• Supervised >50 Bachelor and Master Theses

2024 (*scheduled)

• *European Public Choice Society, Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria

• Behavioral Economics and Management Science Colloquium, Hamburg, Germany

2023 

• CEPOS Copenhagen, Danish Public Choice Workshop

• European Public Choice Society, Annual Meeting, Hanover, Germany 

• Copenhagen Business School, Microeconomics Workshop: Advances in collective and individual decision-making and information economics

• TU Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Behavioral Economics Workshop

• German Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Regensburg, Germany  

2022 

• TU Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Behavioral Economics Workshop

• ETH Zürich, Workshop on Democracy

• European Public Choice Society, Annual Meeting, Braga, Portugal 

• Center for Integrative Business Psychology, Annual Meeting 

2021 

• German Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Regensburg, Germany  

• University of Bayreuth, Economics Research Seminar

• Virginia Tech, International Conference on Social Choice & Voting Theory

• Aarhus University, MOB Seminar

2019 

• Leibniz Center for Informatics, Dagstuhl Seminar, Germany

• University of Strasbourg, International Conference on Public Economic Theory

• Aarhus University, MOB Seminar

• Aarhus University, Danish Public Choice Workshop

2018 

• University of Bayreuth, DYCODE Lecture

• University of Siegen, Economics Research Seminar

• Volkswagen-Stiftung, Symposium ‘Mathematics and Politics: Democratic Decision Making’, Hanover, Germany

• Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 14th Meeting, Seoul, Korea

2017 

• German Economic Association, Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria

• Aarhus University, Economics Seminar

2016 

• Workshop on Direct Democracy, DIW, Berlin, Germany 

• Empirical Microeconomics Workshop, Banff, Canada 

• Game Theory Society, 5th World Congress, Maastricht, Netherlands

• European Public Choice Society, Annual Meeting, Freiburg, Germany