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 the founding of working groups and nationwide networks, the conception and implementation of conference- and teaching formats, and the co-founding of an entire university. At all these stages, we have expanded the spectrum of meaning of what economics can be. In this way, ethical and scientific self-reflection, a diversity of research topics, theories, and methods, and also the development of innovative approaches were able to find their way into the discipline.
Currently, my focus is on my PhD at the Walras-Pareto Center of the University of Lausanne on the role of the categories psyche and power for the constitution of scientificity in economics.
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 04/2017: Research assistant at the Institute of Economics at the University for Social Transformation (Previous fields of activity: Research coordination; study program development and 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 University for Social Transformation.
07/2013 – 04/2015: Student assistant at the Kueser Akademie für europäische Geistesgeschichte.
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.
Since 01/2020: 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:
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Portuguese:
Mother tongue
fluent in speaking and writing
Basic knowledge
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