Professional career

1986-1990 Research associate at the Department of Economics at the Free University of Berlin

1990-1996 Managing Director of the Institute for Ecological Economic Research (IÖW) GmbH, Berlin

since 1997 Full Professor for Economics and Environmental Economics at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences

2007-2010 Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences

since 2011 Chairman of the Faculty Council Faculty 1

2016-2021 central environmental representative of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

Studies

1979-1985 Studies of economics at the Gesamthochschule - University of Duisburg

1985 Diploma as economist at the University of Duisburg

1993 Doctorate (Dr. oec.) at the Free University of Berlin under Prof. Dr. M. Küttner, second examiner Prof. Dr. W. Winterhager, with the dissertation "Der methodologische Status der Rationalitätsannahme in der Ökonomie" with the grade "magna cum laude".