Max R. P. Grossmann

Curriculum vitae

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since 10/2020 University of Cologne
Doctoral student in Economics
Focus: Behavioral and experimental economics, advisors: Axel Ockenfels, Frederik Schwerter
08/2023 — 08/2024: Oskar Morgenstern Fellow at Mercatus Center, George Mason University
06/2024: Ph.D. Summer School on Development Economics at Nova SBE
02/2024 — 03/2024: Visiting Scholar at Vinson Centre, University of Buckingham
06/2022: BESLAB Computational and Experimental Economics Summer School at UPF
10/2017 — 09/2019 University of Cologne
Master of Science, Economics
Focus: statistics, econometrics, economic design and behavior
Summa cum laude, final grade: 1.1 (top 1%)
01/2019 — 05/2019: Studies abroad in economics at The University of Texas at Dallas
10/2015 — 08/2017 University of Cologne
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Focus: finance and microeconomics
Summa cum laude, final grade: 1.1 (top 1%)

Positions held

since 04/2020
University of Cologne: Lab Manager, Cologne Laboratory for Economic Research
since 03/2020
University of Cologne: Research assistant to Professor Axel Ockenfels
07/2015 — 09/2019
University of Cologne: Student research assistant to Professor Axel Ockenfels
04/2017 — 07/2018
University of Cologne: Teaching assistant for Statistics
10/2016 — 02/2017
University of Cologne: Teaching assistant for Information Systems

Memberships

  • American Economic Association
  • Center for Social and Economic Behavior, University of Cologne
  • Economic Science Association
  • European Economic Association
  • Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung
  • Royal Economic Society
  • Verein für Socialpolitik

Awards and funding

2023 — 2024
Center for Social and Economic Behavior, University of Cologne. Incentivizing Lab Signups. €4,000 (with Arno Apffelstaedt).
2023 — 2024
Center for Social and Economic Behavior, University of Cologne. Paternalism and Deliberation. €1,527.
2023 — 2024
Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. $7,000.
2023
Support for a general population survey, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences.
2022 — 2023
Center for Social and Economic Behavior, University of Cologne. Two studies on Positive Welfare Economics. €4,000.
2020 — 2021
Project funding through Axel Ockenfels' ERC Advanced Grant #741409.
2019
PROMOS scholarship for studies abroad, German Academic Exchange Service. €2,900.
11/2018
University of Cologne: Dean’s Award, WiSo faculty
06/2017
University of Cologne: Dean’s Award, WiSo faculty

Professional service

Refereeing, involvement in multiple hiring committees at the University of Cologne, Ph.D. student representative at the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (in 2022).

Miscellaneous

Programming languages and technologies

C, R, Python, JavaScript, PHP, oTree, z-Tree, POSIX-compliant shell, GNU/Linux, …

Languages

German (native), English (proficient, C2), Spanish (basic, A1).

(Unofficial) world record

Number of digits computed of the constant Sophomore's Dream (1 million)