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Department of Economics

Finishing Students & Job Market Candidates

Job Market Candidates | Finishing Students| Students with Placement

Department of Economics

Job Market Candidates

Ann-Kristin Becker

PhD Student, Department of Economics

Research Interests:Labor Economics, Economic History, Climate Policy, Development Economics
Primary Supervisor: Erik Hornung

Johannes Kochems

PhD Student, Department of Economics

Research Interests: Public Economics, Labor Economics, Regional Economics
Primary Supervisor: Sebastian Siegloch

Marten Ritterrath

PhD Student, Department of Economics

Research Interests: Innovation, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Economics
Primary Supervisor: Anna Bindler (DIW) & Felix Bierbrauer

Department of Economics

Finishing Students

Department of Economics

Students with Placement

2026

Sebastian Weibels

PhD Student, Department of Econometrics and Statistics
Research Interests: Machine Learning, Asset Pricing, Portfolio Optimization, Market Efficiency, Belief Formation, Analysts, Behavioral Finance
Primary Supervisor: Tom Zimmermann
Placement: Research Fellow, Lake Lucerne Institute (LLUI), Department of Wealth Creation

2025

Markos Farag

Doctoral Student: Cohort of
Department of Economics, Office-Energy

Research Interests:
Primary Supervisor: Marc Oliver Bettzüge
Placement: Post-Doc, UoC

Sarah Gharbi

PhD Student:
Department of Economics, Econ-Office Campus

Research Interests: Public and Labor Economics
Primary Supervisor: Sebastian Siegloch
Placement: Post Doc, Rockwool Foundation, Berlin

Max Grossmann

PhD Student
Department of Economics, Office.Ockenfels

Research Interests: Experimental and Behavioral Political Economy
Primary Supervisor: Axel Ockenfels
Placement: Lecturer (tenure track) , University of Melbourne

Maria Nußberger

Doctoral Student
Department of Economics, Office-Energy

Research Interests: Energy & Environmental Economics, Economics of Climate Change, Regulatory Economics
Primary Supervisor: Marc Oliver Bettzüge
Placement: Economist, EU Commission, Directorate General Customs and Taxation

Carola Stapper

PhD Student
Department of Economics, Econ-Office Zollstock

Research Interests: Economic History, Labor Economics, Political Economy
Primary Supervisor: Erik Hornung

Max Thon

PhD Student: Cohort of
Department of Economics

Research Interests: Strategy  Organizational Design and Behavior, and Personnel Economics
Primary Supervisor: Oliver Gürtler
Placement: Post-Doc University of Zürich and University of Cologne

Jonas Zdrzalek

PhD Student
Department of Economics, Econ-Office Zollstock

Research Interests: Interface of macroeconomics, financial stability and asset pricing
Primary Supervisor: Andreas Schabert

Placement: Post Doctoral Researcher, Kiel Institute

Job Market Officer

The Cologne Graduate School's Job Market Officer is our contact for recruiters and advises our finishing students, especially those who are planning to go on the academic job market.