# Vita

- URL: https://julianhinz.com/vita/
- Type: Biography
- Portrait: https://julianhinz.com/vita/Photo%20Julian%20Hinz.jpg (© Universität Bielefeld)
- Curriculum vitae (PDF): https://jhi.nz/cv.pdf

Julian Hinz is a Professor of International Economics at [Bielefeld University](https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/wiwi/) and Director of the [Research Group Trade Policy](https://www.kielinstitut.de/research/research-centers/trade/trade-policy/) at the [Kiel Institute for the World Economy](https://www.kielinstitut.de). Previously, he was a [Max Weber Fellow](https://www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme) at the [European University Institute](https://www.eui.eu) in Florence. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the [Paris School of Economics](https://www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu) and [Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne](http://www.univ-paris1.fr). He was named one of [Germany's Top 40 under 40](https://www.capital.de/karriere/capital-ranking--das-sind-deutschlands-top-40-unter-40-fuer-2025-36192498.html) by Capital magazine in 2025. He is a 2026 DG GROW Fellow with the European Commission and, since February 2026, a member of the [China Commission](https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/weitere_gremien/china-kommission) of the German Bundestag.

His [research](https://julianhinz.com/research) is at the intersection of international economics and data science, studying international trade and its connection with foreign policy, the spatial dimension of international trade, migration and finance, and related questions in applied econometrics. His work is characterized by policy-relevant research questions using state-of-the-art quantitative methods often involving big data. He has published in leading journals including the *European Economic Review*, *Economic Policy*, and the *Journal of International Economics*. He serves as Associate Editor for the [Review of World Economics](https://link.springer.com/journal/10290), directs the Albert O. Hirschman PostDoc Program at the Kiel Institute, and develops open source tools for economists, including [KITE](https://github.com/julianhinz/KITE) (Kiel Institute Trade Policy Evaluation Model) and [glmhdfe](https://github.com/julianhinz/R_glmhdfe).

Get in touch via e-mail at [mail@julianhinz.com](mailto:mail@julianhinz.com?subject=hi). You can find me on X [@julianhinz](https://www.twitter.com/julianhinz), Bluesky [@julianhi.nz](https://bsky.app/profile/julianhi.nz), LinkedIn [Julian Hinz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianhinz/), and on GitHub [@julianhinz](https://www.github.com/julianhinz).

You can find more information in my [curriculum vitae](https://jhi.nz/cv.pdf).