Curriculum Vitae:

• Since 10/2015: Chair of Finance (Assistant Professor with Tenure Track), Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen

• 2015: Interim Professor for Financial Services, University of Bremen

• 2014: Visiting Researcher, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (Netherlands)

• 2013: Visiting Researcher, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

• 2010–2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Business Economics, TU Braunschweig
  Habilitation in Business Economics, Topic: "Risk Assessment and Risk Transfer in Financial Institutions"

• 2004–2010: Affiliated Research Fellow, Department of Business Economics, TU Braunschweig
  PhD. (Dr. rer. pol.) in Finance, Topic: "Risk Management in Credit Portfolios – Concentration Risk and Basel II"

• 2004: Diploma (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing.) in Business Economics and Electrical Engineering, TU Braunschweig

Grants and Awards:

• SWFA Best Paper Award (2020)
• WKWI/VHB Best Paper Information Systems (2019)
• CIONET European Research Paper of the Year (2018)
• Heinrich-Büssing-Preis (2017)
• Liechtenstein Research Prize (2016)
• MFA Outstanding Paper Award in Financial Institutions (2015)
• McKinsey Business Technology Award (2012)
• fme-Award in Economics (2010)

Fields of Research:

• Risk Management in Financial Institutions
• Risk Transfer with Structured Products
• Capital Markets
• Digital Finance
• Regulating Financial Markets

Publications:

You can find an overview of my publications here: Publications
Many of the publications are available for download: SSRN

Presentations:

You can find an overview of my presentations here: Presentations

Projects:

Currently three third-party funded projects are in progress at the Chair of Finance:

• Agency Probleme in Securitizations (DFG)
• Insurance and Trade of Catastrophe Risk: Determinants, Pricing and Price Anomalies on the Secondary Market for Cat Bonds (DVFVW)
• Applied Financial Econometrics (MERKUR)