I am an Assistant Professor (non-tenured, RTDA) for Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, School of Management. My research interests center around the fields of innovation management and entrepreneurship research, in particular,  entrepreneurial finance. Moreover, I am a Research Affiliate at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich and the Academic Coordinator of the Innovation School at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. I am also regularly teaching in the Master in Finance and Executive Programs of the Goethe Business School in Frankfurt. Previously, I was a Senior Research Fellow (PostDoc) at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt (Management and Microeconomics Department) for my dissertation On the Economics of Innovation and Corporate Finance (summa cum laude). I had research visits at Questrom School of Business, Boston University (2023), the Norwegian School of Economics (2022), the NYU Stern School of Business (2019), Deutsche Bundesbank (2017), and Hamburg Institute of International Economics (2014). Since 2023, I have been active in the research network of the Innovation Growth Lab.
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