Dr. Dominik Schober works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim and as senior researcher at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research. He studied economics in Würzburg, Germany, and Caen, France, received his doctoral degree from the University of Duisburg-Essen, and spent research visits at NYU and Stanford University. His fields of research include energy and environmental economics, industrial economics, and public economics. His main career focus is on applied microeconometric research and academic policy consulting.