Biographie

Employement

11/2020 – 03/2021

• Professor Comparative Political Science (pro tempore) at Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

10/2020 – 10/2020

• Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit), Chair of Political Systems and European Integration (Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz) at Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

10/2019 – 09/2020

• Professor Political Systems and European Integration (pro tempore) at Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

10/2017 – 09/2019

• Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit), Chair of Political Systems and European Integration (Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz) at Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

03/2016 – 09/2017

• Post-doctoral researcher, Project ‘COHESIFY: The Impact of Cohesion Policy on European Identification’, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (project coordinated by John Bachtler, University of Strathclyde)

03/2015 – 02/2016

• Researcher, Project ‘Where Is My Party? Determinants of Voter Agreement about the Ideological Positions of Political Parties’, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (DFG-project coordinated by Marc Debus, University of Mannheim, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin, Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis)

10/2013 – 09/2014

• Researcher, Project ‘Going Local: Determinants of Institutional Changes of Local Government and their Implications for Political Participation and Political Decision-Making in West European Democracies’, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (project coordinated by Marc Debus, University of Mannheim)

09/2012 – 02/2016

• Research and Teaching Assistant, Professorship of Political Science III, Comparative Government, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim

04/2012 – 09/2012

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘The Political System of Germany’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

04/2011 – 09/2011

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘The Political System of Germany’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Po¬itical Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10/2010 – 03/2011

• Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair of ‘Deutsche Regierungssysteme im europäischen Vergleich’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10/2009 – 03/2010

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘Deutsche Regierungssysteme im europäischen Vergleich’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

03/2008 – 07/2008

• Student Assistant, Project ‘Demokratiemuster in den deutschen Bundesländern und ihre politischen, gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen’ (DFG-project coordinated by Markus Freitag and Adrian Vatter), University of Konstanz

12/2007 – 12/2007

• Student Assistant, Chair of International Relations and Conflict Management, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz

Education

07/2015

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; PhD in Political Science (Dr. phil.). Title of dissertation: Koalitionsbildungsprozesse auf kommunaler Ebene: Schwarz-Grün in deutschen Großstädten (summa cum laude; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Torsten Oppelland; Prof. Dr. Marc Debus)

12/2010 – 07/2015

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Ph.D. candidate in political science

10/2008 – 09/2010

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Master of Arts in ‘Geschichte und Politik des 20. Jahrhunderts’

10/2005 – 09/2008

• University of Konstanz; Bachelor of Arts in Political and Administrative Science