Research Focus

• Behavioral & Experimental Economics
• Personnel Economics, Labor Economics, Law & Economics

Positions in research

• since 2012 Assistant Professor for Economics, Florida State University
• since 2012 Research Affiliate, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• 2009 – 2012 Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
• 2011 – 2012 Visiting Research Scholar (July – January) , School of Information, University of Michigan, USA
• 2007 – 2008 Visiting Researcher (October – March), Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai JiaoTong University, PR China
• 2005 – 2009 Research Assistant, BonnEconLab, Laboratory for Experimental Economics, University of Bonn, Germany

Education

• 2005 – 2010 Dr. rer. pol. summa cum laude (equivalent to Ph.D. in Economics) University of Bonn, Germany,  Supervisors: Reinhard Selten, Armin Falk
• 2001 – 2005 Diplom-Volkswirt (equivalent to Master in Economics) University of Bonn, Germany, Supervisor: Reinhard Selten