Career
- 1984 – 1992 Studied mathematics, philosophy and logic at the universities of Bonn, Düsseldorf and Hagen, graduating with an M.A. from the University of Bonn
- 1993 – 1997 Doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
- 1994/1995 Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia/USA
- 1998 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Bonn; Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University, California/USA
- 1998 – 2000 Research fellow of the DFG and habilitation candidate at the University of Bonn
- 2000 – 2014 Strategic management consultant for financial risk management in the financial services industry at the following companies: Oliver Wyman (2000-2004), KPMG (2004-2010, most recently as a partner) and McKinsey & Company (2010-2014)
- Lecturer at the FHDW for Business Administration, Banking and Finance since 2014;
Teaching focus: Banking management and banking regulation, business mathematics, statistics, controlling and business and corporate ethics - Since October 2024 Vice President for Organization and Didactic Development
Research and consulting focus
- Risk management and risk controlling for banks
- Overall bank management
- Modeling and management of credit risks
- The socio-ontological position of companies and their relevance to business ethics (current research project)
- Empirical modeling of insolvency propagation between economic sectors (current research project)
Memberships in scientific societies
- German Society for Financial Economics (DGF) e. V.
- German Business Ethics Network (dnwe) | European Business Ethics Network Deutschland e. V.
- Society for Analytic Philosophy e. V.
Publications
“Out of the Back Office. Credit Risk Decision Making”; in: Frontiers in Finance, June 2007, pp. 25-27
“The Value in Bad Debt. On the Management of Sub- and Non-Performing Loans in Retail Banking”; in: Managing Credit Risk. Beyond Basel II; KPMG Publication 2007, pp. 32-36
“On the Notion of Causality in Credit Default Models”; in: Thomas Müller, Albert Newen (ed.), Logic, Concepts, Principles of Action, Paderborn 2007, pp. 151-164
“Credit Collections and Recoveries”; in: Basel Briefing 14; KPMG Publication 2008
“Ratings Revisited: New Frontiers in Credit Risk Modeling. Part 1: Tackling the Problem of the Economic Cycle”; McKinsey Publication 2013
“Ratings Revisited: New Frontiers in Credit Risk Modeling. Part 2: The Use of Text Sentiment Analysis in Risk Management”; McKinsey Publication 2013
“Effektive Kommunikationskanäle – Informierte Mitarbeiter stützen die Unternehmensstrategie” (together with Lana Willms); in: die bank. Journal for Banking Policy and Practice , Issue 7, 2019, pp. 48-50
“Sustainability factors in risk management and bank management” (together with Constantin Ebert); in: die bank. Journal for Banking Policy and Practice , Issue 3, 2020, pp. 66-70
ESG risk factors in the credit decision: Der schmale Grat zwischen Risikosteuerung und Risikoverschärfung” (together with Constantin Ebert); in: die bank. Journal for Banking Policy and Practice , Issue 6, 2020, pp. 50-55
In addition, two book publications and numerous articles in specialist journals and anthologies in the field of philosophy and logic; including:
Kant’s Critique of Cosmology. A Formal Analysis of the Doctrine of Antinomies, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin – New York 1999 (= Kantstudien Ergänzungshefte, Vol. 134)
Foundations of the Formal Sciences II. Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics, ed. by Benedict Löwe, Wolfgang Malzkorn and Thoralf Räsch, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht – Boston – London 2003 (= Trends in Logic, vol. 17)
