Since October 2022, Niklas Rott has been working as a research and teaching assistant at the Chair of Public Economics and Health Economics of Prof. Dr. Robert Nuscheler.

Niklas Rott studied Business Administration and Economics (Bachelor) at the University of Ulm from 2016 to 2019. Thereafter, he started a master's programme in Economic Policy Analysis at the University of Magdeburg, from where he transferred to Augsburg University's master's programme in Economics and Public Policy in 2020. During this time, he also spent the winter term 2021 as a semester abroad in the United States at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, which is part of the University of Pittsburgh.

During his studies, Niklas Rott worked as a student assistant at several chairs of the Universities of Ulm and Augsburg. He gained practical experience during an internship in the department for location policy at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Lower Bavaria and as a student assistant to two members of the Bavarian State Parliament.