Associate
Since 06/2021: Associate at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
11/2019 - 05/2021: Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, project "Landmatrix"
2016 - 2019: GRK1666 "GlobalFood", Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen
2010 - 2015: CEIGRAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spanien, Research Fellow and Doctoral student
2009 - 2010: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Fellow
2008: Mabanaft Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG, Hamburg, Fuel trader
1999 - 2007: DZ BANK AG, Apprenticeship and Student trainee baking business
Education: Dr. (summa cum laude) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain, Dissertation on: „A multi-scale analysis of transforming agricultural markets in the context of globalization: implications for natural resources, food prices and rural poverty in Latin America”; M.A. in Business Administration (Diplom-Kauffrau) at the University of Hamburg, Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador
Effects of global land acquisitions on economic development and the environment
Globalising agricultural markets and private governance structures
Globalisation and natural resources
Africa