Education

 02/2016 (Defense)

PhD, Political Science, Humboldt University Berlin
Thesis title: “The Commission Presidents and European Integration: Political Leadership Performance in Supranational Governance” (Submission 09/2015)


10/2011-09/2015

PhD Candidate
Research Units “Global Governance” and “Position Formation in the EU Commission” at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)


02/2013-09/2015

PhD Candidate
French-German Doctoral College, “Construire les différences II/Unterschiede denken II” (EHESS Paris/Humboldt University Berlin)


06/2015

Visiting Researcher
European University Institute/Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence


02-03/2015

Visiting Researcher
Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Lausanne


10/2014-01/2015

Visiting Researcher
French-German Institute, Ludwigsburg


09-12/2012

Visiting Researcher
Visiting PhD Candidate, Sciences Po Centre d’études européennes, Paris


10-11/2011

Visiting Research Fellow
German Historical Institute, Washington DC


07-12/2011

Visiting Research Fellow
BMW Center for German & European Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington DC


07/2010

M.A. in Political Science, Applied Linguistics & Literature (grade: 1.3)
Thesis title: “George W. Bush on State Visit in Europe – The Image of the 43rd U.S. President in the German and British Quality Press,“ University of Hildesheim, Germany