Education and Current Positions
March 2023 – current
Academic Director, Ludwig Erhard Forum for Economy and Society, Berlin
March 2012 – current
Full Professor of Economics, especially Political Economy (W2), University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
August 2006 – October 2011
PhD Project in History of Economic Thought, University of Hamburg
Dissertation Title: “Neoliberal Ideas of the State. The Role of Government in Economic Policy in the Œuvre of Walter Eucken, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Wilhelm Röpke”
May 2005 – August 2006
Initial PhD Project in Dynamic Macroeconomics
October 2003 – April 2005
Studies of Economics, University of Hamburg; Degree: Diplom-Volkswirt (German MSc Equivalent); Distinction of the Faculty
October 1999 – February 2004
Studies of Business Administration, University of Hamburg; Degree: Diplom-Kaufmann (German MSc Equivalent); Distinction of the Faculty
June 1999
Graduation at German High School, Sofia; Best 1999 Cohort Abitur (German A-Levels) Score
Professional Experience
September 2022 – February 2023
Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, Princeton University
January 2021 – September 2021
Organizer of the Lecture Series “History of Economic Thought”, Department of Economics, Stanford University
December 2019 – February 2020
Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
October 2019 – June 2023
Member of Selection Committees of the History of Economics Society:
2019 – 2021: Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Awards Committee (Chairman 2020 – 2021)
2021 – 2023: Craufurd Goodwin Best Article Prize Committee (Chairman 2022 – 2023)
September 2019 – November 2019
Visiting Scholar, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington
August 2019 – current
Member of the Board of Trustees, Humboldt-Forum Wirtschaft HUFW, Humboldt University of Berlin
January 2019
Lecturer in History of Economic Thought, MA Program “Pluralist Economics”, University of Siegen
October 2017 – current
Co-Chair, Leipzig Colloquium on the Foundations of the Market Order, University of Leipzig
March 2017 – August 2021
International Faculty Member, MA Program “Philosophy, Politics, Economics”, CEVRO Institute Prague
September 2016 – February 2017
Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
June 2016 – current
Co-Organizer, Young Scholars Seminar Series, NOUS Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy and “University Seminars” Series of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation
February 2015 – August 2023
Deputy Director, Wilhelm Röpke Institute Erfurt
February 2012 – February 2015
Managing Director, Wilhelm Röpke Institute Erfurt
January 2012 – current
Mentor & Selection Committee Member, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
September 2010 – October 2010
Visiting Scholar, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
February 2011 – June 2011
Lecturer in History of Economic Thought, University of Hamburg
April 2010 – August 2012
Head of Research Project “The Centrally Planned Economy of the GDR: Myths and Reality”, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), Office Erfurt
April 2009 – June 2009
Visiting Researcher, Bulgarian National Bank
February 2009 – current
Organizer of Doctoral Students Seminar Series in History of Economic Thought and Constitutional Economics, Wilhelm Röpke Institute Erfurt and University of Erfurt
October 2006 – June 2011
Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Political Economy, History of Economic Thought and Academic Writing at the University of Hamburg, Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, University of Erfurt and Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen
September 2003 – February 2005
Affiliate of the Migration Research Group, Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
October 2002 – March 2005
Tutor for Undergraduate Economics Courses, University of Hamburg
May 2000 – October 2003
Intern in IT Consulting Companies in Hamburg
Editorial Board Activity
Co-Editor
October 2019 – current
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch (Co-Editor). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot
August 2017 – current
ORDO Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Co-Editor). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Editorial or Advisory Board
October 2020 – August 2021
New Perspectives on Political Economy (Member of the Editorial Board). Prague: CEVRO Institute
March 2020 – current
Power and Democracy – Rivista internazionale di Politica, Filosofia e Diritto (Member of the International Scientific Committee). Rome: Tocqueville-Acton Centro Studi e Ricerche
January 2019 – current
History of Political Economy (Member of the Advisory Board). Durham: Duke University Press
April 2017 – current
History of Economic Ideas (Member of the Editorial Board). Pisa: Fabrizio Serra
Referee Activity
Journals
Adam Smith Review
Constitutional Political Economy
Economic Alternatives
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics
European Journal of Law and Economics
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
History of Economic Ideas
History of Political Economy
Homo Oeconomicus
Journal for Markets and Ethics
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Journal of the History of Ideas
Modern Intellectual History
Œconomia – History, Methodology, Philosophy
ORDO Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
Public Choice
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
Review of Austrian Economics
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Book Manuscripts
Bristol University Press
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
Rowman & Littlefield
Teaching Experience
Institutions
CEVRO Institute Prague; College of Europe Hamburg; University of Erfurt; University of Hamburg; University of Siegen; Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen; University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
Courses
Academic Research and Philosophy of Science; Austrian Economics; Comparative Economic Systems; Constitutional and Ordoliberal Political Economy; European Integration and Transition Economics; History of Economic Thought; Introductory Microeconomics & Macroeconomics; Political Economy of Globalization; Quantitative Methods
Guest Lectures
Brown University; George Mason University; Humboldt University Berlin; HWR Berlin School of Law and Economics; Indiana University Bloomington; Princeton University; Roosevelt University Chicago; Sofia University; University of Basel; University of Freiburg; University of Hamburg; University of Mannheim; University of Potsdam; University of Richmond; University of St. Gallen; University of Zurich
Memberships
Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Member of the Advisory Board)
Bulgarian Hayek Society
Das Progressive Zentrum (Member of the Advisory Board)
Econwatch – Gesellschaft für Politikanalyse
Entangled Political Economy Research Network
European Society for the History of Economic Thought
Forum Marktwirtschaft der Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (Member of the Advisory Board)
Forum Ordnungspolitik Freiburg (Member of the Advisory Board)
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (Member of the Board of Trustees)
Hayek Institute Romania (Member of the Advisory Board)
Herbert Giersch Stiftung (Member of the Advisory Board)
History of Economics Society
International Adam Smith Society
James Madison Society, Princeton University
Ludwig Erhard Foundation Circle of Friends
Monetary Research Center Sofia
Mont Pèlerin Society
Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy NOUS (Founding Member)
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics
Southern Economic Association
Tocqueville-Acton Centro Studi e Ricerche (Member of the Advisory Board)
Verband der Stipendiaten und Altstipendiaten der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit (Member of the Alumni Thesis Award Jury)
Verein für Socialpolitik
Walter Eucken Institute
Wilhelm Röpke Institute (Former Managing & Deputy Director)
Fellowships
2022 – 2023: Visiting Fellowship, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics, Princeton University
2019 – 2020: Research Fellowship, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
2019: Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington
2016 – 2017: Research Fellowship, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
2011: Young Scholar Fellowship for the Annual Conference at University of Notre Dame, History of Economics Society
2010: Young Scholar Fellowship for the Annual Conference at Syracuse University, History of Economics Society
2010: Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Center for the History of Political Economy, Department of Economics, Duke University
2009: Fellowship for the Regional Meeting in Stockholm, Mont Pèlerin Society
2009: Visiting Researcher Fellowship, Bulgarian National Bank
2008: Fellowship of the Summer Institute for the History of Economic Thought, George Mason University
2006: Fellowship for the General Meeting in Guatemala City, Mont Pèlerin Society
2005: Fellowship of the Hamburg Ministry of Higher Education and Research
2001 – 2009: Student and PhD Student Fellowships of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Awards
2024: “Absolventenscheffel” (2nd Place) Teaching Award by the Alumni of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2023: “Absolventenscheffel” (1st Place) Teaching Award by the Alumni of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2022: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (2nd Place) by the Students, and “Absolventenscheffel” (2nd Place) Teaching Award by the Alumni of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2021: Nomination for “Professor of the Year” Award of the Unicum Foundation
2018: Nomination for “Professor of the Year” Award of the Unicum Foundation
2018: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (2nd Place) by the Students, and “Absolventenscheffel” (2nd Place) Teaching Award by the Alumni of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2017: “Absolventenscheffel” Teaching Award by the Alumni of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2016: Honorary Member of the “Hayek-Kreis” of the Fellows of Friedrich Naumann Foundation
2015: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (1st Place) by the Students of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2014: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (1st Place) by the Students of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2013: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (1st Place) by the Students of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2012: “Goldener Scheffel” Teaching Award (3rd Place) by the Students of the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau
2012: “Lighthouse Award” for Achievements for Liberalism by the Fellows of Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Lingual Proficiency
Bulgarian (Mother Tongue)
German (Fluent)
English (Fluent)
French (Good Command)
Russian (Good Command)