Personal details

Current position and affiliations

• Professor of Public Finance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law
• Research affiliate at the the Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Department of Public Economics, Munich

Short CV

Since 04/2011
Professor of Public Finance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law

01 – 03/2011
Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance (former MPI for Intellectual Property and Competition Law)

11/2009 - 12/2012
Visiting scholar at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, Research Professorship "The Future of Fiscal Federalism", Prof. Dr. Kai A. Konrad

10/2009 - 12/2010
Desk Officer Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Division I A 1

04/2008 - 09/2009

Senior Research Fellow in the Department "Market Processes and Governance" at Social Science Research Center Berlin

01/2004 – 03/2008

Research Fellow and PhD student at the Institute for Public Finance, Leibniz University Hannover (degree 11/2007: PhD in Economics, summa cum laude)

1998 – 2003

Studies of economics at the universities of Münster, of Hannover (degree 12/2003: Diploma in Economics and Business Administration) and Bocconi/Milan (degree 07/2003: Master's in Economics)