About Me

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Other facts in (approximately) descending order of importance:

• I am from Germany and have lived in Denmark (2010 to 2016), the UK (2016 to 2019) and the Czech Republic (since 2019), with shorter visits to Italy (2015) and the US (2015-16) in between.
• I am currently Principal Investigator of the GAČR Junior Star Project “Data, Algorithms, Power: Economic Theories of the Information Society.” From 2020 to 2022 I was principal investigator of the PRIMUS research project “Information Revelation and Privacy in the Information Age” at Charles University.
• In 2016/17, I convened the Economics Postdoc Seminar at the University of Oxford. From 2017 to 2019, I served as Junior Dean of Nuffield College. I was also a member of the Governing Body, the Welfare Committee and the Personnel and Domestic Committee of Nuffield College. During my time in Copenhagen, I was on the Council of the Economics Department and on the PhD Committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences. (Yes, I was also student president in high school …)
• From 2007 to 2012, I worked for a member of the German Parliament. I also wrote, among other things, about what German politicians can (not) learn from Barack Obama (the distortive headlines were added by an editor who was more fond of Obama than I was — an early lesson in the vagaries of the publication process!), and how the Social Democrats can regain their old strength (in a political magazine, both links in German).
• It is my ambition to be one of Europe’s leading experts on Lyndon B. Johnson. (I am quite probably the youngest.) Click here for my page-filling article on Lyndon B. Johnson in the German weekly Die Zeit.