Professional Positions
Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics (since 2016)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Stand-in Professor of Development Economics (Chair Prof. Klasen) (2013-2016)
Faculty of Economic Sciences, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Junior Professor of International Agricultural Economics (2009-2015)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher (2008 – 2009)
Co-Innovation for Quality in African Food Chains, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Postdoctoral researcher (2008)
Agroecosystems Management Program, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
Postdoctoral researcher (2007)
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Research associate and Coordinator of M.Sc. program in International Agribusiness (2002-2006)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Education
Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences/ Socio-economics of Rural Development (2006)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Visiting scholar (8 –12/2005 and 2–4/2006)
Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
M.Sc. (Diplom) in Geography
Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany (2002)
Awards and Honors
Josef G. Knoll European Science Award 2008 of the Eiselen Foundation
Grantee of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2007
T.W. Schultz Best Contributed Paper Award for Young Economists 2006 (3rd place) of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE)
Grantee of the German Academic Exchange Service for research fellowship at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2005
Hans H. Ruthenberg Award for Graduates 2002 of the Eiselen Foundation
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