PD Prof. Dr. Florian W. Bartholomae, born in Munich, studied economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and graduated in 2005. With a dissertation on "Konsumentenheterogenität und Struktur des Außenhandels. Eine Analyse im Kontext der Theorie des intra-industriellen Handels“. He received his doctorate in 2011 from the Faculty of Economics and Organizational Sciences at the Bundeswehr University Munich. In June 2018, he successfully completed his habilitation project on " Ökonomische Auswirkungen aktueller gesellschaftlicher und technologischer Entwicklungen“ and acquired the teaching qualification for the field of Economics.

His research interests include international trade theory, industrial economics, regional economics and economics of the information society. In these fields he wrote several scientific publications, which he presented at international conferences and published in refereed journals. In 2010, he was awarded the lecture award of the Verein für Socialpolitik for his presentation of "Smart Entry in Local Retail Markets for Electricity and Natural Gas" at the EEA in Glasgow. On behalf of various institutions, he wrote a series of regional economic studies, such as the evaluation of the central location system in Bavaria. He is a member of the Münchner Volkswirte Alumni Club e. V. and the Verein für Socialpolitik.

PD Prof. Dr. Florian W. Bartholomae was a research associate at the Chair of Economics, in particular Microeconomics and Competition Policy at the Bundeswehr University Munich until August 2018. He is currently Professor of Economics at the Munich Business School and associate partner in the political consultancy Bartholomae & Schoenberg Partnerschaft. He is still active as a private lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Organizational Sciences.