CV

Education

 Work Experience

Professional activities

  • Since 03/2022: Member of the editorial team REGION
  • 04/2018-07/2019: Co-editor of working paper series: Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG)
  • 10/2015-12/2016: Member of examination board bachelor’s program Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 07/2015: Member of Committee for Evolutionary Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik (Social Policy Association), Germany
  • 10/2014-9/2017: Member of working group Universities and sustainable regional development, Academy of spatial science and planning (ARL), Germany
  • 10/2014 -02/2015, Member of appointment committee professor of Cultural Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover
  • 11/2014: Co-organizer of workshop The evolution of networks, industries and clusters (ENIC), Leibniz University of Hannover and Halle Institute for Economic Research, Germany
  • Since 09/2014: Member of research initiative TRUST, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 07/2014-12/2016: Member of research initiative FI:GEO, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 04/2013-01/2014: Member of scientific committee for the conference: Geography of Innovation, Utrecht, January, 23.-25. 2014
  • 06/2013-06/2015: Member of strategic advisory board, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 10/2012-12/2016: Coordinator of minor subject Economic Geography for Economists, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 10/2011-12/2016: Admission committee masters’ program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 10/2011-12/2016: Head of examination board masters’s program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • 10/2011-12/2016: Coordinator of master’s program Economic Geography, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  • Since 04/2011: Co-editor of Working Papers on Innovation and Space, Philipps University of Marburg, Faculty of Geography

Research Interests

  • Economic geography
  • Innovation economics
  • Effects and development of knowledge networks
  • Measurement of innovation performance
  • Efficiency and productivity analysis
  • Social network analysis

Reviewer

  • Annals of Regional Science
  • Applied Economics
  • Bulletin of Economic Research
  • Bulletin of Geography
  • DRUID Summer conference
  • Economic Development Quarterly
  • Economic Geography
  • Economics of Innovation and New Technology
  • European Planning Studies
  • Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
  • Erdkunde
  • FWF Austrian Science Fund
  • FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology Lisbon, Portugal
  • Geoforum
  • Industrial and Corporate Change
  • International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics
  • Network Science
  • Omega, The International Journal of Management Science
  • Papers in Regional Science
  • Raumforschung und Raumordnung
  • Regional Studies
  • Research Policy
  • Science and Public Policy
  • Small Business Economics
  • South African Journal of Economics
  • Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie

Awards

  • Best Young Scholar Paper Award (DIME final conference, 2011) for the paper: Do cooperative R&D subsidies stimulate regional innovation  efficiency? Evidence from Germany.