* 08.09.1975 in Unna

Since 10/2003
Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Graduate School “The Future of the European Social Model”, Georg-August University, Göttingen;

10/1996 – 04/2003
Student of economics at the University of Hamburg (Diplom). Areas of interest: Growth Theory, Game Theory and History of Economic Ideas.

10/2002 – 02/2003
Colloquium „Problems of Globalisation“ at the Department of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin