Professorship
06/2010 - 03/2023: At the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies and the University of Hamburg as Claussen-Simon-Professor of Economics, esp. the economy and innovation in Asia.
1984 - 2010: Research Fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, with a research focus on economic growth and development.
Studies of economics at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Ph.D. in 1992; Habilitation at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg in 2000.
International productivity differences
Socio-economic transitions
Asia