Professional Activities
since March 2014
Centre for Social Policy Research (ZeS), University of Bremen
Post-doctoral research fellow “International diffusion of healthcare policies: policy learning in managed care”
since February 2012
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Innovation-Incubator
Visiting professor Regional Health Economics
Head of research (“Healthy at Work”)
April 2010 – January 2012
RAND Europe, Cambridge UK
Analyst and Consultant “Health and Healthcare”
International comparisons of financing, service provision, and regulation of healthcare systems; Resource allocation mechanisms; Pay-for-performance, Cost-benefit evaluation
Department of Health, England; Natural England; KBV Berlin
April 2003 – April 2010
Collaborative Research Center 597 "Transformation of the State" at the University of Bremen
Research fellow and PhD candidate “The Changing Role of the State in OECD Healthcare Systems”
Teaching: Seminar “Managed Care”
Equity in healthcare financing and utilisation
September 2008 – July 2009
The Commonwealth Fund’s Harkness Fellowship “International Program in Health Policy and Practice”
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, NY
Barriers to Equity in the Utilization of Care
February 2002 – March 2003
Department of Medical Sociology/Working Group Social Gerontology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
Projects in healthcare and care for the elderly
November 2000 – September 2001
MediaTransfer AG Netresearch & Consulting, Hamburg
Project manager quantitative online-market research
Conjoint measurement
March 1999 – November 2000
ABC Consult, Berlin
Founding member / policy advisor
Conceptual planning of nursing homes
February 1997 – February 1999
Prognos GmbH, Health and Social Care, Potsdam/Berlin
Research fellow Investitionsprogramm Pflege (IVP)
