Economics of Renewable Energy at the University of Duisburg-Essen (since February 2017). He studied mathematics and statistics at the TU Dresden and University College Dublin (UCD). In June 2016 he received his doctoral degree in business administration and economics from the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt(Oder) writing a thesis about electricity price modeling and forecasting. During his PhD and post-doc period he researched at the European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics of the Université libre de Bruxelles and at the Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics of the University of Oxford. His research objectives are the quantitative modeling of energy markets with focus on the impact of renewable energy. Additionally, he is interested in time series analysis of seasonal data with application to energy and environmental economics such as statistical portfolio management.