Deutsch Intern
Sinologie in Würzburg

Jonas Lindner, M.Sc.

Chair China Business and Economics, Research Assistant

Jonas Lindner is a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of China Business and Economics.

Academic career

Jonas Lindner currently is a research assistant at the Chair of China Business and Economics at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. He is also a doctoral student at the Faculty of Business Management and Economics at JMU.

Jonas Lindner holds a bachelor's degree in Modern China (BA) and a master's degree in China Business and Economics (MSc) from the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg. He spent the academic year 2016/17 at Peking University in Beijing (PR China) and National Taiwan University in Taipei (Taiwan) to learn Mandarin Chinese. He also spent the academic year 2018/19 at Beijing Normal University in Beijing (PR China) to study economics. He graduated with a thesis on the relationship between income inequality, consumption, and economic growth in China.

Research interests

Jonas Lindner's research interest lie at the intersection of politics and economics. His doctoral research projects centres on the relationship between economic development and economic inequality, and explores the way that politics shapes both processes. His further research interests lie in the fields of development economics and political economy, as well as sustainable development. His thinking mostly revolves around questions of poverty, prosperity, and distribution.

Conference participation with paper presentation

May 2023: DGA YSG Conference, Halle (Saale)

Teaching

Methodological Questions of Chinese Economic Research (SS 2021, SS 2022, SS 2023)

Chinese Economic Discourse Analyses (WS 2022/23, SS 2023)

Case Studies (WS 2019/20, WS 2020/21, SS 2021, WS 2021/22, WS 2022/23) 

Challenges of Sustainable Development (WS 2022/23)

Consumerism and Marketing (WS 2019/20, WS 2022/23)

Business and Finance (WS 2020/21, WS 2021/22)

China's Firms in Global Markets (SS 2020)

Management in China (SS 2020)