Employments
| 03/2023-current | S/W2 Professor for ‘Politics of Multilevel Governance’, University of Potsdam |
| 04/2012-current | Senior research fellow, Research Unit ‘Global Governance’, WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| 04/2020-09/2020 | Professor of ‘International Politics and Law’ (interim), Freie Universität Berlin |
| 09/2008-03/2020 | PhD Researcher, Junior Research Group ‘Position Formation in the EU Commission’, WZB Berlin Social Science Center |
| 07/2006-05/2010 | Organisation and supervision of simulations on political decision-making, EuroSoc GmbH - Think Tank for European Decisions |
| since 10/2005 | Various teaching assignments at different European universities |
| 03/2005-10/2007 | Managing Editor, European Union Politics (Academic journal) |
| 08/2004-02/2005 | Political Consultant in EU affairs, Berlin Business Representation, Brussels |
Education
| 01/2012 | Dr. rer. pol., Freie Universität Berlin. Thesis ‘Politicisation, issue salience, and consumer policies of the European Commission’; Supervisors: Prof.Dr. Miriam Hartlapp / Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn; summa cum laude; Winner of the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for the best thesis in politics 2013 |
| 09/2009 | ECPR Carlo Alberto Summer School on Analytical Politics, Moncalieri, Italy |
| 04/2008 | M.A. Politics and Management, University of Konstanz. Thesis: ‘From Chicago to Brussels: EU regulation of international air transport and the stock market performance of internationally operating airlines.’ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider; very good; Winner of the 2009 VEUK e.V. award for the best diploma thesis in politics and management |
| 06/2001 | A-levels, Hochrhein Gymnasium Waldshut(1,9) |
Software + Programming
| MS Office | |
| LaTeX | |
| GIMP / Photoshop | |
| Atlas.Ti | |
| Ableton Live |
| R | |
| HTML / CSS | |
| SQL | |
| Stata | |
| Python |
Supervision and consultancy
| Bachelor/Master | More than 30 theses supervised at Freie Universität Berlin and University of Potsdam. |
| Ph.D. | Second supervisor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Georg August University of Göttingen (each 1x) External examiner at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, European University Institute Florence, Humboldt University Berlin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leiden University, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Universidade de Lisboa, Università degli Studi di Milano, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (each 1x) Individual mentoring of Ph.D. projects at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (3x) |
| Other | Various consultancies for individual grant proposals, qualification projects, and non-academic data science projects especially regarding automated text analysis, web scraping, and data visualization methods. |
Full CV
What else?
| Personal interests | Cycling and bikes (n+1) Rap & Slam Poetry Photography Basketball |