Economist
Staff Researcher

Current Research Topics

• Water resource management, in particular demand-oriented infrastructure planning and management
• Economic valuation of environmental goods
• Quantitative methods (Econometrics)

Professional Experience

• Research staff, Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ (inter alia member in the BMBF-funded project of Glowa-Elbe – Global change impacts on the water cycle in the Elbe river basin (www.glowa-elbe.de). The aim was to develop strategies for a sustainable management of water on the regional scale considering global environmental and socio-economic conditions).
• Economic evaluation and internalisation of environmental costs at the upper course of the river Yaque del Norte in the Dominican Republic (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ, Santo Domingo)
• Evaluation of a payment system for environmental services in Costa Rica (Centro Internacional de Política Económica – CINPE, Heredia/San José)
• Economic Evaluation of a water protection area for water supply in Quito, Ecuador (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit – GIZ, Quito)

Education

• PhD in Environmental Economics, Martin-Luther University, Thesis: Simulation of residential water demand in the Elbe river basin A multi-scale modelling approach (Weißensee Verlag, 2010)
• Master of Business Administration at the University of Leipzig, Waterford Institute of Technology (Waterford, Ireland), University of Chile (Santiago, Chile), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Main Topics: Controlling, Public Finance, Information Systems
• Training course in Geographic Information Systems (Arc View) at Kompetenzzentrum für Geoinformatik (GiN), Vechta
• Training course "Multivariate statistics in social sciences” at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ