个人简介

He studied Agricultural Economics at the University of Bonn andthe Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. His doctorateresearch (summa cum laude) was on the ‘Nature of Economic Value and the Value of Nature’. Hereceived stipends and research grants from the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the Käthe-Hamburger Kolleg and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was research fellow at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, USA established bythe late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom. 2015 heearned a habilitation (fakultasdocendi) for independent teaching and research in the field of resource economics from the Humboldt University of Berlin.