I am a Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc) at the Max PIanck Institute for Behavioral Economics in Bonn. I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne in 2025. In spring 2024, I was visiting Stanford University by invitation of Eric Bettinger.

As an applied microeconomist, I work on the economics of education, behavioral economics, and public policy. Using field and online experiments, I study why students do not claim financial aid, how families make educational choices, and how to design effective policy interventions. A second line of research examines information and risk preferences.

An overview of the student aid results for German practitioners can be found here.

My PhD-advisors were Matthias Sutter, Pia Pinger, and Bettina Rockenbach.

If you are interested in my research or want to chat, feel free to contact me through the following channels: