Welcome to my webpage! I am a professor of public policy and administration at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University (FIU). Previously, I was appointed as an associate (2019-2024) and assistant professor (2013-2019) at FIU. I serve as the department’s Ph.D. program director. Additionally, I am affiliated with initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Arizona State University.

My research is on the management of public organizations, collaborations, and state-citizen interactions. This includes topics such as performance data and performance management, organizational behavior, leadership, motivation, and mitigating burdens.

My research has appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Governance, Government Information Quarterly, as well as other journals. My book “Shared Measures: Collective Performance Data Use in Collaborations” was published by Cambridge University Press. It is about using data to manage diverse teams and draws on a study of opioid-response task forces.

My work has been cited in President Obama’s budget proposal and OMB policy guidance under President Biden. It received awards from the American Society for Public Administration, the Academy of Management, and the European Group of Public Administration. I have been the recipient of FIU’s Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Research, FIU’s Top Scholar Award, and the JPART-AOM/PNP Top Reviewer Award.

I have served in various roles for the Academy of Management’s Public and Nonprofit Division. I have been an associate editor for Public Performance and Management Review and hold or have held editorial board positions at the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, Public Administration Review, and Public Performance and Management Review.

I have engaged in management consulting and training with local government managers and employees in South Florida and North Carolina; government employees in Jamaica; state agencies in Germany; and groups from Thailand, Tunisia, and Latin America.

A native of Germany, I earned my Ph.D. in public administration at the University of Potsdam.