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 Some information about myself.
I
studied Economics at the Universities of Maastricht (Netherlands) and
Toulouse (France), receiving my Master's degree from Maastricht
University in 2001 with mymaster thesis “Happiness
and Economics”. In 2002 I enrolled for a doctoral degree program at the
Institute for
Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) under
the supervision of Prof. Peter Ulrich. At the same time I started
working at the Institute as a research assistant. In September 2004 I
left for Brazil to continue and finalize my PhD
research at the Ibmec Business School in São Paulo under the guidance of Prof. Eduardo Giannetti. I spent two of the
twelve months abroad (which were sponsored by the Swiss National Science
Foundation) as a visiting researcher at the
Centre for
Bhutan Studies in Bhutan to deepen my understanding of
Gross National Happiness. I obtained my doctoral degree in economics from St. Gallen University
(Dr. oec.) summa cum laude in October 2006 with my doctoral thesis on "Happiness, Ethics, and Economics".
After having worked at Hannover Re for three years, I became a professor of economics at the Fachhochschule Osnabrück, University of Applied Sciences.
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