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Current position
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of farm management
- Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe Field Research
- Last mile problem, poverty alleviation, behavioral economics, field experiments, risk attitude measurement of low-numeracy samples, innovative risk coping mechanisms, microfinance, ICT for agriculture
- 2018-2021 PhD Economics, University of Goettingen
Thesis: "The last mile problem: Insights from Cambodian smallholder farmers" - 2015-2017 M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Specialization: International Agribusiness and Rural Development Economics
Thesis: "How to measure risk attitudes among poor rural households in developing countries – a comparative analysis of risk elicitation methods" - 2016 Kyoto Graduate Seminar (KGS) 2016, Kyoto University (Japan)
- 2010-2014 B.Sc. Business Administration, Universität zu Köln
Thesis: ”Micro Insurance – A Third Way For Development?” - 06/2016-12/2017 Research Assistent, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
- 10/2015-05/2016 Working Student, Telekom AG, Telekom Group, Darmstadt, Germany
- 05/2014-09/2015 Consultant Intern, Detecon Interntional, Telekom Group, Cologne, Germany
- 04/2015- 08/2015 Research Assistant, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
- 10/2014-12/2014 Research Intern, BIC United Nations Office, UN Headquarter, New York City, USA
- 10/2013-09/2014 Junior Communication Manager, Talents Connect, Cologne, Germany
- 07/2012-09/2012 Research Intern, micro insurance academy, Bonn, Germany
- Bruns, S., Hermann, D., & Mußhoff, O. (2022) Investigating inconsistencies in complex lotteries: The role of cognitive skills of low-numeracy subjects. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Online: link
- Bruns S., Mußhoff O., Ströhlein P. (2022) Information Needs and Delivery Channels: Experimental Evidence from Cambodian Smallholders. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Journal, Online: link
- Bruns S., Dalheimer B., Mußhoff O. (2021) The effect of cognitive function on the poor's economic performance: Evidence from Cambodian smallholder farmers. Agricultural Economics, Online: link
- Bruns S., Mußhoff O. (2021) An empirical identification of temptation goods: Perceptions of Cambodian smallholder farmers. Applied Economics, Online: link
- Possner, A., Bruns S., Mußhoff O. (2021) A Cambodian smallholder farmer's choice between microfinance institutes and informal commercial moneylenders: the role of risk attitude. Agricultural Finance Review, Online: link
- Bruns S., Dalheimer D., Mußhoff O. (2022) The effect of cognitive function on the poor's economic performance: Evidence from Cambodian smallholder farmers. 2022 German Development Economics Conference (GDE). 9-10 June 2022, Hohenheim, Germany
- Bruns S., Dalheimer B., Mußhoff O. (2022) The effect of cognitive function on the poor's economic performance: Evidence from Cambodian smallholder farmers. International TVSEP Conference on “Shocks and Resilience in Rural Southeast Asia”. 23 – 24 May, 2022, Göttingen, Germany
- Bruns S., Hermann D., Mußhoff O. (2022) Investigating inconsistencies in complex lotteries: The role of cognitive skills of low-numeracy subjects. Annual Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society (AES). 4 – 6 April 2022, Leuven, Belgium
- Bruns S., Hermann D., Mußhoff O. (2021) Measuring Smallholder Farmer's Risk Attitude: The Role of Cognitive Capacity in Complex Lotteries. 16th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE). 20-23 July 2021, virtual
- Bruns S., Mußhoff O. (2021) What to tax? An investigation of temptation goods in rural Cambodia. 2021 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) & Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting. 1-3 August 2021, Austin, Texas (hybrid)
- Bruns S., Dalheimer B., Mußhoff O. (2020) Poverty, inefficiency and cognitive bandwidth – Evidence from rural Cambodia. 11th (virtual) North American Productivity Workshop (vNAPW XI). 8-12 June 2021, Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami, Florida
- Sagemüller F., Bruns S., Mußhoff O. (2019) Seeing is believing. Tropentag 2019. 18-20 September 2019. Kassel, Germany
- 2021: Selected participant of the 11th round of the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Programme, awarded by the University of Göttingen to accompany young female researchers, aiming at contributing to increasing the number of women in leading positions at research institutions
- 2021:Winner of the Joint Classrooms grant for promising ideas that internationalize the classroom, University of Göttingen
- 2020 European Silver Medal Winner of the 3MT® (Three Minutes Thesis) Competition. Online: link
- 2020 Göttingen Winner of the 3MT® (Three Minutes Thesis) Competition People’s Choice & Jury winner; International 3MT® representative for Göttingen
- 2020 Winner of Campus QPlus grant for innovative teaching, University of Göttingen
- 2017: Awarded a master thesis scholarship by Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable
Land Use (CBL) - 2016: Awarded a fully funded scholarship to the KGS program by Kyoto University
- Applied Behavioral Economics, summer term 2018, 2019,2020, 2021
- Research-centered Learning (FoLL), winter term 2020/21
- Microfinance for the Rural Poor: A Business class, winter term 2019, 2020, 2021
- Microfinance for the Rural Poor: A Business class (together with Kenya Methodist University), summer term 2021
- Finance in Agribusiness (MBA module), winter term 2020
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