I am Deputy Head of the Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics” at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany. I am also an Associated Member of the Wissenschaftsplattform Sustainable Finance, Affiliated Member of the  Frankfurt Centre of Global and German Regulation (FCCR), Senior Advisor of the sustainable finance think tank Climate & Company and teach at Mannheim Business School.

Before, I have been Robert Bosch Assistant Professor for the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Economics Department at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance. I hold a Ph.D. from the University Bern, where I also did my undergraduate studies.

My research focuses on climate and environmental policy questions. In particular, I'm interested in the effective and efficient design of climate policy instruments with an emphasis on the impacts of unilateral interventions in a globalized and interdependent world. My main tools to investigate these questions are analytical and numerical equilibrium models and increasingly econometric techniques.