Niklas Kühsel joined KLU as a PhD Candidate in October 2018 under the Supervision of Prof. Dr. Björn Michaelis. His research is based in the field of strategic management and entrepreneurship.

Before starting at the KLU Niklas received his Master of Science in Applied Economics from the University of Bath in the U.K., where his Master thesis dealt with the stability of cooperative banks during financial crises. Prior to that the candidate conducted his Bachelor studies in Economics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, examining the potential of microfinance schemes to alleviate poverty in his Bachelor thesis.