Since October 2020 Co-Lead of social-ecological junior research group "SteuerBoard Energie" at the Institute for Sustainability Governance (INSUGO)
Since January 2020 senior research fellow and head of the Lüneburg office of ECOLOG Institute for Social-Ecological Research and Education (non-profit), member of the managing board
August 2015 - October 2020 senior research fellow at the Chair of Finance and Financial Institutions at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in different extramurally funded research projects
February 2012 - July 2015 senior research fellow & coordinator of the project "EnERgioN" within the EU project Innovation Incubator Lüneburg
June 2006 - January 2012 junior research fellow at the Chair of Finance and Financial Institutions at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in different extramurally funded research projects
Membership
since 2016 vice-chair and treasurer of the German African Studies Association, 2006-2016 member of the steering committee
founder member and since 2017 member of the coordinating team of the Research Network on Cooperatives in the Energy Transition
member of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and of the EMES International Research Network
Education
2019 PhD at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Dr. rer. pol.)
April 2003 - March 2006 studies of economics, specializing in international relations/develoing countries at the University of Trier [development economics, international financial management, cultural anthropology; elective subject: political science]; diploma 2006
April 2001 - March 2003 studies of economics and African languages at the University of Hamburg
Scholarship by Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst
