

About me
I am an experienced analytics professional with over 10 years of experience in corporate, start-up and academic environments. After completing my Ph.D., I started my career in the private sector as a data analyst in a SaaS focused business in the e-health sector and covered analytics along the customer journey from marketing funnel analyses to sales, customer success and retention analytics. Building up the firm's business analytics team from scratch allowed me to get a deep understanding on required skills and management techniques of highly successful analytics teams. Serving as the Head of Revenue Operations in a global digital healthcare unicorn start-up allowed me to deepen my leadership skills also in the areas of go-to-market operations and to guide successful collaborations with multicultural teams across 13 different markets.
In addition, working as a freelancing business consultant for firms of various sizes and different industries over the last years, allowed me to build up an extensive cross-industry knowledge about best practices on analytics and data strategies. Projects ranged from customer and market analytics, setting up reporting landscapes to data-driven performance deep-dives and financial modeling. Besides diving into analytical projects, I am truly passionate about developing people and spreading knowledge about economics, statistics and data. I strongly believe that data-driven firms require highly skilled and trained teams to be sustainably successful. My industry experience is backed by a rigorous academic training that I received during my Ph.D. at the LMU Munich and previous education steps in the United States and Europe.
When I am not working, you will probably find me in the mountains, on the tennis court or spending time with friends & family.
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Education
2014 - 2018
Ph.D. Economics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Chair of Financial Economics
Munich, Germany
Empirical research at the Chair of Financial Economics (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Clemens Fuest, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Werner Sinn) on topics of corporate taxation and firm-level effects of regulatory intervetions. Graduated with honors magna cum laude (1,0).
I presented my research at various national and international conferences in the United States and Europe (e.g. the Annual Congress of the IIPF, INFINITI Conference on International Finance, Jahrestagung VfS) and published part of the thesis in a peer-reviewed journal (see publications). As a research assistant, I took over multiple teaching assignments and theses supervisions at the bachelor and master level in topics of (financial) economics, business administration and statistics.
2017
Visiting Researcher
University of San Diego, California (UCSD), USA
Research stay upon invitation of Prof. Marc Muendler and Roger Gordon at the Department of Economics.
2013 - 2014
Master of Science, Economics of Public Policy, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (joint degree UPF & UAB), Spain
Masters degree focussing on extensive training on economic theory, advanced quantitative and statistical methods and their application to the design and evaluation of public policies. Awarded with partial scholarship & graduated with honors (3rd of class).
2013
Summer School
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Summer school on Macroeconomics and International Taxation at Oriel College, University of Oxford.
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Science Economics
Bachelor of Arts Political Science
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Munich, Germany
Obtained two independent bachelor degrees in Political Science and Economics with a focus of international relations and public economics.
Publications (selected)
Fuest C., Hugger F., Wildgruber S. (2022). Why Is Corporate Tax Revenue Stable While Tax Rates Fall? Evidence from Firm-Level Data. National Tax Journal Vol. 75 No. 3, September 2022. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/720704
Wildgruber S. (2019). Essays on corporate taxation and firm-level effects of regulatory interventions. Dissertation, LMU München. https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23735/
Fuest C., Wildgruber S. (2017). Steuerpolitik und Wirtschaftswachstum. Wirtschaftsdienst Sonderheft 2017, Heft 13.