Lara Marie M¨uller Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information Email: [email protected] Phone: +49 151 651 050 44

Academic Education

PhD in Economics since 2020 University of Cologne, Cologne Graduate School of Economics Research Interest: Media Economics and Economics of Digitization Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Johannes M¨unster,Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach

Double Degree: Master in Economics 2018 - 2020 University of Cologne, Germany (M.Sc.) and Keio University, Japan (M.A.) One year of studies at each institution

Bachelor of Science in Economics 2014 - 2018 University of Cologne Including two exchange semesters: - Warsaw School of Economics, Poland (SS2016) - Pontif´ıciaUniversidade Cat´olicado Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (WS2015/16)

Research Interest

I am interested in how we can design media markets that best serve society. For this, I aim to conduct mainly experimental research to gain insights on Welfare effects on digital media markets, for example in the context of personalisation or misinformation.

Professional Experience

Research Associate since 07/2020 Chair of Media Economics, Prof. Dr. Johannes M¨unster,University of Cologne Teaching: Exercise in Media Economics (Bachelor and Master), Seminar on Media Mar- kets (Bachelor), Supervision of Bachelor Theses

Freelance Journalist 2018 - 2020 Covering mainly economics for German news outlets, magazines and broadcasters. Cus- tomers included: Handelsblatt, Welt am Sonntag, ada, Die Welt, WDR, FAZ.net, Frank- furter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, among others. Lecturer at K¨olnerJournalistenschule 2018 - 2019 Teaching introductory classes for first and second-year journalism students. Courses taught: Redebericht, Nachricht, Podiumsdiskussion, Unternehmensportrait.

Deputyship of an editor (part-time) 2017 - 2019 Working as an editor at the news desk in the department of finance and markets at Ger- many Business Daily “Handelsblatt” in the form of one to three full working days per week

Apprenticeship as Journalist for Economics and Politics 2013 - 2018 Practical training at K¨olnerJournalistenschule, obtained parallel to Bachelor studies Included 7 internships (two months each) at following employers: - Die Welt, Investigative Department - Handelsblatt, Investigative Department - Deutsche Welle, Department of Politics - ZDF German Television, Bureau in Washington D.C. - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Department Economics Online - K¨olnerStadtanzeiger, Local News - Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, Local News

Awards C-SEB Student Award for excellent Master thesis 2021 Fintech Programming Competition (1st prize, with team) at Keio University 2019 Journalism Award “Blaue Boje” with team of Handelsblatt 2017 Deans Award for Bachelor studies at University of Cologne (top 5%) 2015

Scholarships Scholarship for Master studies: Foundation of German Business (sdw) 2018-2020 PROMOS Scholarship for Internship at ZDF in Washington D.C., USA 2016 Erasmus for exchange semester at Warsaw School of Economics in Poland 2016 DAAD Scholarship (waiver of tuition fees) for exchange at PUC in Brazil 2015

Qualifications Languages: German (mt), English (C2), Brazilian Portuguese (C1), Japanese (A1) Software: R, Python, zTree, LaTeX, Adobe Premiere Pro, MS Office

Voluntary Activities Communication Representative for the newly founded network “sdWomen” for women in the Foundation of German Business since 2019

CV last updated: February 2021