Prior to founding the WIG2 Scientific Institute for Health Economics and Health System Research in 2014, Dennis Häckl researched and taught at the Dresden University of Technology. After studying economics in Nuremberg and Detroit, he received his doctorate as personal assistant to the rector and project manager of the Center for Healthcare Management at the HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. Dennis Häckl is author of numerous articles and book contributions on health economics topics and wrote various studies and expert reports. He holds teaching assignments at the Dresden International University (DIU) and the FOM University of Applied Sciences.