Tobias is a senior research fellow and lecturer in political science at the Hochschule für Politik at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests lie at the intersection of international political economy and comparative politics. He studies how foreign direct investment affects power maintenance in autocracies, the political consequences of economic globalization in democracies and autocracies, aid allocation following recipient and donor leader change, the historical origins of German inflation aversion, and citizen attitudes towards democratic institutions. He teaches courses on international relations, international political economy, and politics in autocratic regimes as well as supervises students writing their Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis.

Tobias holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich and was a visiting PhD researcher at the University of Aarhus. He has studied political science and economics at the University of Heidelberg.