Academic Career

• Guest researcher at the chair of innovation economics, TU Berlin since May 2020
• Guest lecturere at University General San Martin, School of Political Governance, and General Sarmiento, Argentinia, 2004 - 2019
• Guest lecturer at University General Sarmiento, Master Course in Economics and Industrial Development with a focus on Small and Medium Enterprises, Argentinia, 2011 - 2019
• PhD in Political Science and Economics (Dr. re. pol), University Bremen 1999
• Scholarship holder and junior researcher at European and Mediterranean Research Center (CIREM), Barcelona, 1994 - 1998
• Research Assistant, Faculty of Political Science, University Bremen, 1991 - 1994
• Graduate economist (Diplomvolkswirt), University Hamburg, 1991

Professional Experience

• Founding partner of Mesopartner ParG, since 2003, https://www.mesopartner.com/research
• External Consultant of the International Technical Cooperation, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), since 2004,  https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt9/gruppe-93.html
• International consultant and policy advisor for several international development organizations (European Union, GIZ, ITC, ILO and PTB)

Research Interests

• Scientific foundation of quality infrastructure as an emerging research field
• National quality infratrucure, quality culture and quality policy
• Contribution of he quality Infrastructure to digitalisation and sustainable development 

Projects

• GQII (Global Quality Infrastructure Index), https://gqii.org/

Blogs

• Quality Infrastructure for Development (QI4D), https://qi4d.org/
• Talks with Ulrich (in Spanish), https://onac.org.co/blog-ulrich/

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität/German Society for Quality (DGQ), https://www.dgq.de/
• Calienda Community of Practice, https://www.calidena.ptb.de