The Poznan University of Economics and Business, and the City of Poznan invite you to attend an open lecture by Professor Andreas Irmen. The lecture "Economic Growth: Past, Present, and Future" will take place on 25 April 2017 (Tuesday), at 11:30 am, in the Assembly Hall of building B of the Poznan University of Economics and Business, at 10 Niepodległości St.
As part of the visit of the outstanding scientist, the organizers also invite you to attend a seminar for young academics and doctoral students of the Poznan University of Economics and Business under the title of "Capital- and Labor- Augumenting Technical Change in the Neoclassical Growth Model". The seminar will take place on 26 April 2017, between 9:30 am and 11:15 am, in the hall no. 418A (Main Building at 10 Niepodległości St.).
Professor A. Irmen is a Full Professor of Applied Macroeconomics and Microeconomics at the University of Luxembourg and a member of a research network at the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Munich in Germany. Professor A. Irmen's scientific interests focus on the economic theory of innovation and the theory of economic growth.
Professor A. Irmen is a Full Professor of Applied Macroeconomics and Microeconomics at the University of Luxembourg. He was previously a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economic Policy and Macroeconomics at the Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg (2006-2010) in Germany, and Professor of Economics within the field of Microeconomics at the Free University of Bolzano (2005 - 2006) in Italy. Currently, he is a member of a research network at the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Munich in Germany.
Professor Andreas Irmen obtained the PhD degree in Economics from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 1996. He obtained the Diplom-Volkswirt from the University of Constance in Germany 1991, and the diploma of Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 1993. Professor Andreas Irmen was a visiting researcher at the Department of Economics at the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, in 2008, at the Department of Economics at the Harvard University between the years 2001 - 2002, Cambridge, USA, and at the Carl Melchior Minerva Center for Macroeconomics and Growth at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2000.
Professor Andreas Irmen's interests focus on the economic theory of innovation and the theory of economic growth. Professor Andreas Irmen is author of numerous publications in the most prestigious scientific magazines in the world, and winner of some prestigious awards and distinctions for research and didactic achievements: Best Teaching Award of the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim in Germany (2003), grant of the German Scientific Foundation DFG - Forschungsstipendium (2001 - 2002), and the Suisee Assurance Academic Award for the PhD Dissertation, awarded by the University of Lausanne in Switzerland in 1996.