Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

davd@economicscience.net

Professional Experience and Academic Affiliations

09.2022-
Senior Economist, StepStone
09.2014-07.2022
Professor of Economics, Touro College Berlin - German campus of Touro University, NY
2017-2019
Advisory board member, HealthCombix
2009-2016
Faculty Member Bremen International Graduate school in Social Sciences, joint graduate school of University of Bremen and Jacobs University Bremen
04.2009-08.2014
Assistant Professor of Economic Theory and Behavioral Economics, until 06.2011 Assistant Professor of Behavioral Economics; Jacobs University Bremen
10.2005-03.2009
Junior-Professor of Economic Theory, University of Erfurt
12.2001-10.2005
Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group, Jena, Germany
09.2001-11.2001
Research Fellow (Ph.D. student), Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Strategic Interaction Group, Jena, Germany
05.2000-07.2000
Junior Consultant (part-time), KBW Consult, Berlin
08.1999-08.2001
Undergraduate Research Assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Institute of Public Economics; Prof. Wickström, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
07.1999
Assistant to Promotion Director Columbia Office Berlin (part-time), Sony Music Entertainment GmbH Germany, Berlin
11.1996-09.1998
Assistant to Promotion Director EPIC Office Berlin (part-time), Sony Music Entertainment GmbH Germany, Berlin

Education:

04.2005
doctor rerum politicarum (PhD in economics), summa cum laude, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
07.2001
degree as Diplom-Volkswirt (M.Sc. in economics), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Professional Memberships & Affiliations:

  • American Economic Association,
  • Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences (CEREB at the University of Erfurt),
  • Data Visualization Society,
  • Deutscher Hochschulverband (German Association of University Professors),
  • Economic Science Association,
  • Econometric Society,
  • European Association of Labour Economists,
  • European Economic Association,
  • Gesellschaft für Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung,
  • International Association for Research in Economic Psychology,
  • Royal Economic Society,
  • Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics,
  • Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association),
  • World Economics Association,
  • World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research

Miscellaneous:

2012-
Member of the federal scholarship selection committee of the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
2010-
Contact person (Vertrauensdozent) of the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
2002-
Moderator of sci.econ.research

Refereeing:

Journals

  • Applied Economics,
  • Applied Economics Letters,
  • B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
  • Business Research,
  • Eastern Economic Journal,
  • Economics Bulletin,
  • Experimental Economics,
  • Games,
  • International Journal of Emerging Markets,
  • International Journal of Psychology,
  • International Journal of Public Opinion Research,
  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly Journal of Socio-Economics),
  • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
  • Journal of Evolutionary Economics,
  • Journal of Economic Psychology,
  • Management Science,
  • Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft

Publishers

  • McGraw-Hill (textbooks in economics)

Funding Agencies and Foundations

  • European Commission, Research Executive Agency: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Individual Fellowships, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • Friedrich Naumann Foundation,
  • National Science Foundation: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences program,
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Interests:

  • social norms and preferences,
  • heterogeneity and stability of preferences
  • labor economics,
  • public economics and policy,
  • (evolutionary) game theory,
  • behavioral and experimental economics,
  • microeconometrics and applied bayesian statistics

Erdős number

4 (Erdős, Koczy, Strobel, Güth)