Melina Ludolph has been a research fellow in the Department of Laws, Regulation and Factor Markets at Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) and an assistant professor at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since September 2021. She leads the research group Banking, Regulation, and Incentive Structures and conducts research on banking regulation, financial stability, financial crises, and applied econometrics. Melina Ludolph studied and received her PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin.