Main areas of teaching

• Bank management
• Securities management
• Financing of SMEs

Lectures

• G3-1 Structure of the banking system and fundamentals of the banking industry
• A4-1a Traditional lending business
• A4-1b Credit substitutes/hybrid financing instruments
• V1-1a(1) Banks’ business policies
• V3-1b Securities transactions and international financial markets
• V5-2b Insurance business operations

Special functions

• Member of the University Senate
• Member of the examination office

Curriculum vitae

• Trained as a bank clerk
• Studied to become a teacher of commercial studies at the University of Paderborn
• Research assistant in the business law Department at the University of Paderborn
• Awarded PhD by the University of Paderborn (thesis on variable compensation systems at banks – an acceptance strategy on the design and implementation)
• Total of 18 years of professional experience in different positions and functions at a big German bank (eg management assistant, group head of PR and communications, business management)
• Appointed professor at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstands, subsequently worked in the same position at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg) in Villingen-Schwenningen
• Lecturer for various national and international Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD programmes (eg at Soochow University, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, University of Gloucestershire)

Research interests

• Treasury and investment management at banks and insurers
• Compliance regulations for securities transactions
• Financing and liquidity management in SMEs
• Good work and organisational structures in SMEs