As a student of economics, I experienced the discipline to be part of the societal problems that motivated me to study it in the first place. Together with peers, I decided to make our discipline part of the solution.
INTRO
Born in 1990 in Ostwestfalen-Lippe, my journey as an economist began in 2009 in the equally beautiful Oberfranken (Bayreuth). My decision to contribute to a substantial change in economics and economic education led me to co-found local working groups, the nationwide Network for Pluralist Economics, and even an entire university, the Hochschule für Gesellschaftstaltung. At all these stages, we have expanded the degree of impact of our innovations but most importantly, the spectrum of meaning of what economics and economics education can be. This way, ethical and scientific self-reflection, a diversity of research topics, theories, and methods, a real-world-centered approach and the acquisition of future skills were able to find their way into the discipline.
After my time on the Moselle building the Hochschule für Gesellschafts-gestaltung, I have now found my way to the Elbe and live in the inspiring city of Hamburg. Here, I am currently focusing on completing my thesis project on the institutional and psychological foundations of self-governance.
EDUCATION
Since 01/2020: PhD student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. PhD on the topic “Psyche and Power – A Genealogy of the Psychological and Philosophical Foundations in Friedrich Wieser and Friedrich A. Hayek” (working title). Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harro Maas.
10/2015 – 03/2017: Master studies “Economics and Social Transformation” (M.A.) at the Cusanus University for Social Transformation. Master thesis on the topic: “Truth and responsibility – on the crisis of existence as modus operandi of a responsible economic education“. Final grade “very good”.
01/2014 – 09/2015: Participation in the certificate course “Economics and Social Transformation” at the Kueser Akademie für europäische Geistesgeschichte.
09/2013 – 04/2015: Participation in the Social Sciences College of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in the working group “Education as Creative Reflection – Conditions and Possibilities of a Societal Rethinking Using the Example of Economics”.
10/2009 – 05/2013: Bachelor studies “International Economics and Development” (B.A.) at the University of Bayreuth. Bachelor thesis on the topic “A way to ‘scientificity’ – epistemological foundations in economics”. Final grade “good”.
06/2009: High school diploma at Gymnasium Horn-Bad Meinberg. Final grade “very good”.
STAYS ABROAD
01/2012 – 03/2012: Internship at the Center for the Support of Family Agriculture – Centro de Apoio ao Pequeno Agricultor (CAPA), Pelotas, Brazil.
08/2011 – 12/2011: Semester at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2006/2007: one-year stay in Austin, Texas, USA as a scholarship recipient of the Parliamentary Partnership Program of the German Bundestag and the U.S. Congress
MEMBERSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
History of Economics Diversity Caucus
Associate member of the Walras-Pareto Center for the History of Economic and Political Thought.
Fellow at the next economy lab (NELA)
Association for Socioeconomic Education and Research (ASEER)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Since 08/2025: Programmanager CampusAckerdemie and FachschulAckerdemie at Acker e.V.
04/2017 – 02/2025: Research assistant at the Institute of Economics at the Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung
(Research coordination; study program development; project lead “study programm accreditation”; program coordination Bachelor Economics; teaching; public relations; fund acquisition; assistant in the research project “Manipulation and Influence in Economic Education (esp. textbooks)”).
05/2015 – 03/2017: Student assistant at the Institute of Economics at Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung.
(study program development; establishing the unit “student aquisition”; event management)
07/2013 – 04/2015: Student assistant at the Kueser Akademie für europäische Geistesgeschichte.
(establishing network of funding partners; event management; study program developement)
GRANTS & AWARDS
05/2022: Fellowship from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford, California.
11/2021: Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholar Award from the History of Economics Society with travel stipend.
06-2020: Early-Career Scholars Research Fund of the History of Economics Society.
01/2020 – 05/2025: Full PhD scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
11/2011 – 09/2016: Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
2006 – 2007: Scholarship of the Parliamentary Partnership Program of the German Bundestag and the U.S. Congress.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German:
English:
French:
Spanish:
Portuguese:
Mother tongue
fluent in speaking and writing
Basic knowledge
Basic knowledge
Basic knowledge