About

I hold the Fielmann Professorship for the Economics of Global Transformation at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Kiel University. I am also a Research Fellow at IZA@LISER and RFBerlin and serve on the editorial board of The Journal of Economic History. Before joining the Kiel Institute, I was a Full Professor at the University of Bayreuth and an Associate Professor at the University of St Andrews. I work at the intersection of international and regional economics, labor economics, and quantitative economic history.

My research adopts a long-term perspective to study multiple pressing global transformations, including growing regional disparities, increasing interstate violence, and rising levels of forced migration. Specifically, I study how war and displacement affect labor markets, as well as how regions adapt to adverse labor market shocks and recover from economic decline. My work is explicitly interdisciplinary, drawing on historical perspectives to understand the dynamics of global transformations over time.

Please see my CV for further details.