Governing multi-scale heterogeneities to activate natural carbon sink potentials (GONASIP)

Technological Neutrality: A Critical Assessment

FUSE: Food – water – energy for Urban Sustainable Environments

Jordan Water Project – Capacity Building: Development and Implementation of a Strategic Modeling Tool for Water Management in Jordan

Sustainable deployment of renewable energies with multiple environmental impacts − Policy strategies to address ecological trade-offs of the energy transition (MultiplEE)

The Political Economy of Safe-guarding Security-of-supply with High Shares of Renewables

Kopernikus Project "Systemintegration: Energiewende-Navigationssystem" (ENavi)

Arzneimittelabgabe: Beteiligung von Arzneimittelherstellern an den Kosten von Maßnahmen zur Reduktion der Konzentration von Mikroschadstoffen in Gewässern

Evaluierung des Wasserentnahmeentgelts in Baden-Württemberg 

Integrated Urban Catchment Governance: Organizational, Legal and Fiscal Foundations for Sustainable Management of Waste- and Rainwater in the Wuxi Region / China

Einführung einer Abgabe auf Pflanzenschutzmittel in Deutschland

since 2015

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

since 2014

Head of the Department of Economics

since 2008

Professor of Economics, especially Environmental Institutional Economics, University of Leipzig and Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department Economics

since 2002

Publicly Certified Expert for Cost Accounting of Public Enterprises
2002-2003: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Berlin;
since 2003: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Frankfurt am Main

2004 - 2008

Vice Dean and Head of Examination Office, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main

2004

Habilitation at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the University of Augsburg, (Economic and Legal Aspects of Eco-Tax Systems), Venia Legendi for Economics

2001 - 2008

Professor of Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, Faculty of Business and Law

2000 - 2001

Member of the Scientific Staff of the Enquete Commission "Sustainable Energy Supply" of the 14th German Bundestag, Berlin

1999 - 2000

Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

1998 - 1999

Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Research Group "Rational Environmnetal Policy − Rational Environmental Law"

1998

Scholarship Holder of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn

1995 - 1998

Habilitation Scholarship Holder of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1995

Visisting Professor at the University of Bremen, Faculty of Law, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Programme of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) "Risikoregulierung und Privatrechtssystem" (Risk Regulation and System of Civil Law)

1994

PhD in Economics, University of Cologne

1990 - 1995

Research Assistant and Project Leader at the Research Institute for Public Finance, University of Cologne

1989

Diplom-Volkswirt (Master of Economics), University of Cologne

1986 - 1989

Student and Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Economic and Social Science Statistics, University of Cologne

1986 - 1989

Scholarship Holder of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

1983 - 1988

Study of Economics, Business Administration and Statistics, University of Cologne