PERSONAL DATA:
Date and place of birth: 04th February 1973 in Coburg
Nationality: German
Family status: married

CURRENT POSITION:
Full Professor
Chair of Monetary Economics
Department IV, University of Trier

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2008 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley

2007 – 2008 Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) Chair of International Macroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Würzburg

2001 – 2009 Research assistant / Assistant Professor (Chair of Monetary and International Economics, Prof. Dr. B. Herz, Department of Law and Economics, University of Bayreuth)

1998 – 2001 Research assistant (Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Bayreuth, Prof. Dr. Peter J. Huber, Prof. Dr. Wolf von Wahl)

EDUCATION

2004 – 2008 Habilitation (German post-doctoral degree): “Heterogenous Expectations in Foreign Exchange Markets“ University of Bayreuth, Department of Law and Economics

2001 – 2004 Doctoral degree in economics: “Partial Information in Currency Crises Models“ (summa cum laude), Supervisor Prof. Dr. Bernhard Herz
University of Bayreuth, Department of Law and Economics

1994 – 2000 Diploma in Economics, International Management Certificate
University of Bayreuth, Department of Law and Economics

1993 – 1998 Diploma in Mathematics with honors
University of Bayreuth, Department of Mathematics and Physics

01 – 08 1993 Associate of Arts in Mathematics with honors,Santa Barbara City College

1992 – 1993 Diploma in International Studies EF-International Language School of Santa Barbara

1983 – 1992 Abitur: Gymnasium Ernestinum in Coburg

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Forecast Uncertainty and the Taylor Rule (with M. Neuenkirch)
The European Stability Mechanism — bastion of calm or crisis accelerant? (with A. Hild and B. Herz)

Trend, Volatility, and Volume: Unraveling Asset Price Behavior (with B. Erdogan)

The uncertainty channel of contagion

A theoretical claim for mixed strategies in currency crises.

Permanent asset price bubbles. (with M. Schiml)

DIDACTICS

2006 Completion of the Bavarian University Didactics Training Program (Zertifikat Hochschullehre Bayern)

Department teaching award 2014, 2015 and 2016

Dynamic economics: An extensive course in economics with interactive dynamic graphics (Dynamische Volkswirtschaftslehre – Ein online-Lehrbuch), www.giw.uni-bayreuth.de/gxt, continuously updated since 2004. More than 300.000 visits per year.