Reinhold Kesler studied economics at the University of Mannheim, focusing on applied microeconometrics and empirical industrial organisation. In 2019, he graduated summa cum laude with a dissertation on “Competition Policy in the Digital Era” at the University of Zurich.

Reinhold joined the Chair for Entrepreneurship as a postdoctoral researcher on July 1, 2019. Previously, he was a researcher at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the Digital Economy department. His research agenda involves studying the power of digital platforms and the value of user data by means of innovative data collection and state-of-the-art empirical methods. Besides publications in renowned journals, his research also achieved great resonance among policymakers and in the media.