Bio:

Meilin Möllenkamp is a 5th year PhD candidate at the chair of health care management at Hamburg Center for Health Economics (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jonas Schreyögg). During her PhD she was part of an EU research project on improving the evaluation, diffusion and use of medical devices in Europe. Specifically her research focuses on behavioral economics, geographic variation in the use of medical devices and the diffusion of innovations. Methodologically, she primarily employs econometric methods using routine data. Before her PhD, from 2015 to 2017, she worked as a research associate in the health policy department at the IGES Institute in Berlin. She holds a bachelor's degree in Public Management from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen and a master's degree in Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.