Biographical Information

A complete CV is available on request.

Particulars

• Born 7 February 1975 in Munich (Germany), German nationality

Positions

• Research Fellow of the CNRS (first class), CERSES, University of Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

• Professor of Economics (part-time), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

Further affiliations

• Economics Faculty, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

• Choice Group, London School of Economics, U.K.

• Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS), London School of Economics, U.K.

• Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST), Paris, France

Previous Career

• 2009 - 2011: Lachmann Fellow for research in economics and philosophy, London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

• July 2009: Habilitation (external) at the Economics Faculty of Karlsruhe University (Thesis)

• 2006 - 2009: Nuffield Foundation New Career Fellow, London School of Economics, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science

• 2005 - 2008: Assistant Professor of Economics, Maastricht University, Department of Quantitative Economics (tenured in 2008)

• 2002 - 2005: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy, Probability and Modelling Group, Centre for Junior Research Fellows, Konstanz University

Current research areas (for details, go to Research projects)

• Decision theory, from various perspectives (formal, philosophical, positive, normative, etc.)

• individual decisions: reasons, motivations, unawareness, preference change, freedom of choice

• collective decisions: aggregation of judgments, preferences, probabilities, and other attitudes

• Other interests: welfare economics, game theory, probability theory and statistics, non-classical logic, mathematical models of terrorism prevention

Main awards and distinctions

• 5th Social Choice and Welfare Prize, Society for Social Choice and Welfare, awarded jointly to F. Dietrich & C. List at the Society’s general meeting in Moscow, 2010

• Laudatio by John Roemer, Photo

• Excellent Young Scholar Award, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Maastricht University, 2007

• Veni Fellowship, Dutch Science Foundation, 2006-8

• New Career Development Fellowship, Nuffield Foundation (U.K.), 2006-9

• Research Fellowship, German Research Foundation, 2005 (not taken up)

• Doctoral Scholarship, Cusanus Foundation (Germany), 2000-2

• Graduate Scholarship, Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, 2001

University Education

• Doctorate in Mathematics at Oxford University, 2004. Doctoral studies May 1999 – Aug 2002 at Oxford University, Brasenose College. Area: probability theory and statistics, econometrics.

• Diplom in Mathematics (major) and Economics (minor) at Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, 1999. Studies at Technische Universität München (Oct 1993 – July 1995), Oxford University, St. Peter’s College (Oct 1995 – June 1996), and Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (Oct 1996 – Feb 1999).