Short profile

Professional activity

Since 10/2022 Research assistant at the Chair of General Economics, in particular (monetary) macroeconomics

Education

2020-2022 Master's degree in Economics at the FernUniversität in Hagen

2016-2020 Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Coburg University of Applied Sciences

Project collaborator

Sub-project "Interactive app-based learning environment" in the ESF+ project Inclusion, Sustainability and digitalisation as success factors for increasing academic success at TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Awards

2022 Effective Thesis Exceptional Research Award (best master's thesis)

2022 Third place in the Metaculus Million Predictions Hackathon

Publications

For a complete list of publications, see Google Scholar

Research interests

• Forecasting, in particular evaluation of probability assessors
• Incentives for extraction of information, truth-telling and honesty
• International relations 

The purpose of the current research is to assess the degree to which incentives and mechanisms can help improve predictions and estimates, especially when conflicts of interest arise. Additionally, this line of research sheds light on a new way of communicating the accuracy of probability assessors.