After finishing his doctoral studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2011, Thomas Hildebrand became a post-doctoral fellow in the special research field Transregio 15 „Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems" and a guest researcher at Deutsche Bundesbank. Since October 2011, Thomas has been working first as an Economist and then as a Manager at E.CA Economics, one of the leading consultancies in the field of competition economics.

During his doctoral studies, Thomas supported his supervisor Prof. Lars-Hendrik Röller at ESMT as a research assistant and as the secretary of the Verein für Socialpolitik.