Academic Positions

  • Since 01/2020:  Professorship of Digital Transformation, University of the Bundeswehr Munich (W2)
  • Since 10/2016:  Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (MPI-IC)
  • 2016 – 2019:  Senior Research Fellow, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate Growth & Innovation, Digital Economy Unit, Seville
  • 2008 – 2016:  Senior Research Fellow, MPI-IC (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Team, headed by Prof. Dietmar Harhoff)
  • 2013 – 2016:  Faculty Member, University of Augsburg, Master Programme "Intellectual Property and Competition Law" (MIPLC)
  • 2008 – 2014:  Academic Coordinator, International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation (IMPRS-CI)
  • 2008:  Research Associate, University of Heidelberg, Chair of Economic Theory, headed by Prof. Jürgen Eichberger
  • 2003 – 2008:  Research Associate, University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics, headed by Prof. Hans-Bernd Schäfer

 

Education and Degrees

  • ­­­2003 – 2008:  University of Hamburg, Germany Doctoral studies, Dr. rer. pol. (equivalent to Ph.D. in Economics)
  • 2003 – 2004:  University of Hagen, Germany, Diplom-Kaufmann (equivalent to Master of Business Administration)
  • 1997 – 2003:  University of Bonn, Germany, Diplom-Volkswirt (equivalent to Master of Science in Economics)
  • 2000 – 2001:  Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal | Graduate studies in economics

 

Awards and Grants

  • 2011 – 2016:  Principal investigator of the project European Data Watch Extended II (joint with Professors Harhoff, Tochtermann and Wagner), German Research Foundation (Amount of funding: 326,025€)
  • 2013:  Sloan Economics of Knowledge Contribution and Distribution Grant 2013, with Richard Watt (11,000US$)
  • 2013:  Prize for the best paper published in the Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues during 2011, with Marc Scheufen (1,500€)
  • 2011 – 2012:  Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition Policy (IIPC) Grant 2011, with Richard Watt (15,000€)