• Empirical and Experimental Research in Insurance
• Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
• Microinsurance
• Health Insurance
• Pro-social Preferences

Basic Research Projects

• The Role of the Intestinal Microbiome in Explaining Economic Preferences (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Identifying Risk and Ambiguity Preferences Free from Context (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Identifying Risk and Ambiguity Preferences Free from Context (funded by University of St. Gallen Research Fund)
• Experimental Studies in Microinsurance Markets (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Driving Growth: The Role of Insurance in Poverty Reduction and the Impact of Regulation on Insurance Market Development (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Microinsurance and Efficiency in the Insurance Industry (funded by German Research Foundation)
• Risky Choice in a Non-WEIRD Sample: A Model Comparison Study 
• Risk Premium Project (funded by Casualty Actuarial Society)
• Productivity and Efficiency in the Swiss Insurance Industry (funded by University of St. Gallen Research Fund)

Practice-Based Projects

• Heterogeneity in Behavioral Biases - A Review of the Literature (for Swiss Re)
• An Earth obseRvation Model based ricE smart information Service (ERMES) (within European Union FP7)
• Strategic Outcome Monitoring Concept for the RIICE Programme (for Allianz Re, SDC, and GIZ)
• Cyber Risk: Risikomanagement und Versicherbarkeit (for  Kessler & Co. AG)
• Generationensolidarität in der Krankenversicherung: Die Auswirkungen der demografischen Entwicklung auf die Krankenversicherung in der Schweiz (for  Swiss Insurance Association)
• Der Generationenvertrag in Gefahr: Eine Analyse der Transfers von Jung nach Alt in der Schweiz (for Swiss Insurance Association) 

• 2016 Inclusion in 40-Years Anniversary Collection of most relevant publications in the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance (paper: Insurability in Microinsurance Markets: An Analysis of Problems and Potential Solutions, Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 37(1): 77–107). 
• 2014 Shin Research Excellence Award, awarded by the Geneva Association and the International Insurance Society (IIS) for “Insurability of Cyber Risk: An Empirical Analysis” (with Martin Eling and Jan Wirfs)
• 2012 Dissertation Award, awarded by University of Ulm Society (UUG)
  for “Essays on Microinsurance: Efficiency, Insurability, and Pricing”

• 09/2009 AFIR / LIFE Colloquium 2009, Munich (Germany)
• 11/2009 5th International Microinsurance Conference, Dakar (Senegal)
• 07/2010 World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress, Singapore (Republic of Singapore)
• 11/2010 WiMa Kongress, Ulm (Germany)
• 02/2011 Recent Advances in Efficiency Measurement in the Insurance Industry, Ulm (Germany)
• 06/2011 ASTIN / AFIR Colloquium 2011, Madrid (Spain)
• 09/2011 Contemporary Microfinance: Institutions, Policies, and Performance, Cairo (Egypt)
• 04/2012 2012 Microinsurance Conference, Enschede (Netherlands)
• 08/2012 ARIA 2012 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (USA)
• 12/2012 SBF Brown – Bag Seminar, St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• 05/2013 ZEW/Uni Mannheim Experimental Seminar, Mannheim (Germany) 
• 04/2014 Swiss Society for Financial Market Research Annual Meeting, Zurich (Switzerland)
• 06/2014 International Insurance Society (IIS) 50th Annual Seminar, London (United Kingdom)
• 07/2014 APRIA 2014 Annual Conference, Moscow (Russia)
• 08/2014 ARIA 2014 Annual Meeting, Seattle (USA)
• 08/2014 29th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Toulouse (France)
• 09/2014 CRO Forum, Zurich (Switzerland)
• 09/2014 EGRIE 2014 Seminar, St. Gallen (Switzerland)
• 12/2014 CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop 2014, Munich (Germany)
• 04/2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Seminar, Madison (USA)
• 08/2015 World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress, Munich (Germany) 
• 08/2016 ARIA 2016 Annual Meeting, Boston (USA) 
• 09/2016 EGRIE 2016 Seminar, Limassol (Cyprus)
• 11/2016 Geneva Association Annual Liability Regimes Conference, Munich (Germany)
• 12/2016 CEAR/MRIC Behavioral Insurance Workshop 2016, Munich (Germany) 
• 03/2017 6th Swiss Cyber Think Tank, Zurich (Switzerland)
• 08/2018 ARIA 2018 Annual Meeting, Chicago (USA)
• 01/2019 ASSA Annual Meeting 2019, Atlanta (USA)
• 04/2019 Swiss Society for Financial Market Research Annual Meeting, Zurich (Switzerland)
• 05/2019 cege Research Colloquium, Göttingen (Germany)
• 08/2019 ARIA 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco (USA)
• 08/2020 ARIA 2020 Annual Meeting (virtual) 
• 09/2020 Economic Science Association (ESA) Global Meeting (virtual)

Referee Activity

• European Journal of Finance
• European Journal of Law and Economics
• European Journal of Operational Research
• Experimental Economics
• Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance
• Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
• Journal of the Economics of Ageing
• Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
• Journal of the European Economic Association
• Journal of Insurance Issues
• Journal of Public Economics
• Journal of Risk and Insurance
• Risk Management and Insurance Review
• Transactions on Internet Technology

Program Committees

• World Risk and Insurance Economics Congress (WRIEC)
• Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research

Third-party Funding

• 2019-2021: Identifying Risk and Ambiguity Preferences Free from Context, fundamental research project funding of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), with Thomas Epper
• 2018: Identifying Risk and Ambiguity Preferences Free from Context, fundamental research project funding of the University of St. Gallen Research Fund (GFF), with Thomas Epper
• 2015: Driving Growth: The Role of Insurance in Poverty Reduction and the Impact of Regulation on Insurance Market Development, scholarship for research visit funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
• 2012-2015: Experimental Studies in Microinsurance Markets, fundamental research project funding of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), with Martin Eling
• 2012-2013: Productivity and Efficiency in the Swiss Insurance Industry, fundamental research project funding of the University of St. Gallen Research Fund (GFF), with Martin Eling