Dr. Maximilian Sommer studied business administration at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt from 2003 to 2008. He then completed his doctorate at the Chair of Business Ethics and Social Policy there on the effects of the possible introduction of an unconditional basic income in Germany. After a post-doc phase and teaching at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, he moved to the microsimulation department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in Bonn. His research topics include microsimulation models in the tax-transfer area, incentive and distribution effects of social law regulations as well as income and wealth distribution. Since 2024, he has been a research associate at the IAB in the research group „Basic Income Support and the Labor Market”.
