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 focuses on the economics of digitalisation, especially on the functioning and competition policy aspects of digital platforms as well as on the role of user data.