Prof. Dr. Kristina Strohmaier
Prof. Dr. Kristina Strohmaier
Inequality and Public Policy
Professor Dr. Kristina Strohmaier is a Junior Research Associate at ZEW. She works in close cooperation with the Research Group “Inequality and Public Policy”.
She has held the Chair of Economics and Finance at the University of Freiburg since October 2026. Her research is mainly empirical and focuses on (international) taxation, tax evasion, and the economics of education. She is particularly interested in how institutions and legal regulations (e.g. tax incentives, smoking bans, school transition regulations) affect human behaviour.
In July 2017, she completed her doctorate in economics at the Ruhr University Bochum under Professor Nadine Riedel. As a doctoral student, she also worked as a research assistant at the University of Hohenheim with Professor Dwenger. In her position as assistant professor, she has completed several short research stays at Columbia University, USA, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
