Associate
Since 06/2017: Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs
Since 10/2016: Visting lecturer, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
2015 - 2017: Research Fellow in the project "Performance and Dynamics of Micro and Small Firms in Developing Countries"
10/2014 - 09/2016: Full Professor for Economics (substitute), Institute of Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Since 10/2016: Lecturer at the Institute of Economics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
08/2011 - 06/2017: Research Fellow at the GIGA Instiute of African Affairs
2010 - 2011: Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Department for Institutional and Behavioral Economics
2007 - 2011: Doctoral Studies at the Institute of Cooperation in Developing Countries, University of Marburg
Education: Economics at the University of Marburg, Germany, 2012 PhD Dr. rer. Pol.
Behavioral development economics
Employment and entrepreneurship
Informal sector
Common-pool resource management
Microfinance
Nepotism and leadership
Religion and development
Southern Africa
Uganda