holds the chair for business administration, especially health care management, and is a member of the Hamburg Center for Health Economics at the University of Hamburg. From 2005 to 2007 he was a research assistant in the Department of Management in Healthcare at the Technical University of Berlin. He then worked as a scientist in the Global Outcomes Research, Reimbursement and Health Technology Assessment department of Merck, Sharp and Dohme in the USA from 2007 to 2008. He then moved to the Helmholtz Center in Munich.