Research Focus

• Experimental Public Choice: Legitimacy Theory, Voting
• Behavioral Economics: Uncertainty, Learning, Fairness

Academic Career

• Since 09/2010: Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
• 10/2004 – 05/2010: Magister of Political Science, Law and Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany. Thesis title: “Hüter der Verfassung oder Ersatzgesetzgeber? – Eine Analyse der Rolle des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”.
• 08/2006 – 02/2007: Exchange semester at the Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France.

Professional Career

• 12/2008 – 08/2010: Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. Undergraduate research assistant.
• 05/2008 – 06/2008: Internship at DW-World, Bonn, Germany.
• 08/2004 – 12/2009: Project assistant at a business consultancy.