Academic Work Experience and Education

08/2019 - today         Tenure-track professor for Finance (W1), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

05/2024 - 03/2025 Parental leave

08/2014 - 07/2019    Assistant professor, Finance Department, Goethe University Frankfurt

Member of the Asset Pricing research group under the supervision of Christian Schlag

01/2018 - 04/2018   Visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver

09/2015 - 12/2015   Visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Funded by research grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

07/2014                      Ph.D., Finance Center, University of Münster (Dr. rer. pol.)

 Thesis: Asset pricing under ambiguity

Supervisor: Nicole Branger

10/2010 - 07/2014    Ph.D. student and research assistant, Finance Center, University of Münster

09/2010                      Diploma in Mathematics (MSc equivalent), University of Münster

Thesis: Dedekind zeta functions and toric geometry

Supervisor: Christopher Deninger

10/2007 - 09/2010    Teaching assistant, Mathematical Institute, University of Münster

Memberships

Principal investigator of DFG research unit "Financial Markets and Frictions - An Intermediary Asset Pricing Approach" (FOR 5230)

Spokesperson of DFG scientific network "Theory-Based Empirical Asset Pricing"

Representative speaker of the Young Investigator Network at KIT

Research Interests

Asset pricing, macroeconomic risks, volatility risks, cross-section of stock returns, financial econometrics

Activities

• Referee for Econometrica, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance, European Economic Review, Review of Managerial Science, International Review of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Business Cycle Research, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

• Referee for the SAFE Asset Pricing Workshop, the Annual Meetings of the German Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Swiss Society of Financial Market Research, and the CFR Colloquium on Financial Markets

• Member of the KIT senate (guest status) as representative of junior researchers (2023)

• Organizer of the Finance Brown Bag Seminar at Goethe University (2016-2019)

• Organizer of the Finance and Econometrics Research and Networking Seminar at KIT (FERN)

• Organizer of CoFi - Coffee and Finance at KIT (CoFi)