Vita

Scientific Experience

  • 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

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