Florian Hoffmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in the determinants of life-cycle career dynamics, earnings dynamics, dynamic discrete choice models of human capital formation, estimation of equilibrium search models, and the importance of student-instructor interactions for academic achievement on the post-secondary education level.

Hoffman received a Vordiplom in Economics from the University of Mannheim in 2002, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2004 and 2010 respectively.