Researchers

Leonie Sundmacher, Scientific director

Professor of Health Economics at TUM School of Medicine and Health,
Member of the expert council for Health & Care and the Hospital Commission at the Federal Ministry of Health

Research interests: Health care management, quality management, regional health care research, intersection of inpatient and outpatient sector, capacity planning, use of health care claims data

Professor of Applied Econometrics at TUM School of Management

Research interests: Econometrics and data science with applications in health, labor, and experimental economics, exploration and analysis of big data

Adjunct professor, medical statistician and biometrician at TUM School of Medicine and Health

Research interests: Clinical trials, health services research, benchmark studies, method comparison studies and predictive modelling with a special focus on machine learning

Professor of Public Health and Prevention at TUM School of Medicine and Health, Adjunct Professor at Emory University

Research interests: Economics of prevention, determinants and consequences of non-communicable diseases, health and societal impact of preventive measures, RCTs, quasi-experimental designs, simulation modeling

Professor of Public Economics and Health Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics at Augsburg University
Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Health Research

Research interests: Social health insurance and risk adjustment, long-term care insurance, health behaviors and prevention, vaccination policies and social polarization

Professor for Health Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Research interests: Applied econometrics and empirical health economics, emphasizing health insurance competition, individual health behaviour

Professor of General Medicine and Health Services Research, TUM School of Medicine and Health

Research interests: Strategies for improving diagnostic methods in general practice, patient empowerment, health literacy

Professor of Global Health at TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology

Research interests: global health, development economics, gender-based violence, gender equity, identification of ethical challenges in development research

Professor of Behavioral Sciences in Prevention and Care at
TUM School of Medicine and Health

Research interests: Behavioral and population health,  behavioral science to improve the effectiveness of health care and health messaging, focus on South and Southeast Asia and the United States

Professor of Empirical Economic Research at LMU Departement of Economics

Research interests: household finance, health insurance plan choice, physician decision-making, survey measurement of preferences and expectations

Professor for Development Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Research interests: Health insurance and social health protection in low-income countries, risk and uncertainty, climate change and health, impact evaluation, behavioral economics

Professor for Economics with a Focus on Health Care Markets at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, head of the Research Group “Health Care Markets and Health Policy” at ZEW Mannheim

Research interests: Market structures in the healthcare sector, remuneration of healthcare services, digitalization of healthcare systems