I'm a lecturer in economics at University of York, interested in the long-run determinants of modern growth, especially New Economic Geography, International Trade, and Comparative Development.
After receiving a B.Sc. in Business Computing from the Universität Paderborn, and an M.Sc. in Information Systems from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, I started a PhD in economics with my advisor Nikolaus Wolf at Humboldt, for whom I also worked as a research and teaching assistant. I also had the chance to spend a semester at UC Berkeley. Now I am a lecturer at the department for Economics and Related Studies at the University of York.
I have a theoretical interest in long-run growth, especially market integration and institutions, and its geographic determinants. My academic background provides me with a solid range of empirical methods, especially concerning very large datasets, calculation-intensive modelling, and geographic information.