I am a research professor (reduced teaching load) at the Nuremberg Institute of Technology for „Data Sience and Empirical Economics“.

I am also affiliated with the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in the research department Education, Training, and Employment Over the Life Course.

I am an IZA, RFB, HCEO and BiB research fellow and professorial member of the Doctoral Research Center for Applied Research for Responsible Innovation (CARRI).

I am associate editor of Empirical Economics and Journal of Labour Market Research.

My research focuses on topics in applied microeconomics with an emphasis on education, health, family, and migration economics.