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🇬🇧 Professional experience / 🇩🇪 Beruflicher Werdegang

2018 – present

Lecturer & Research Fellow
Akademischer Rat a.Z., since 2021; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, 2018-2021,
Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Leibniz Universität Hannover, DE

2019

ERASMUS+ Visiting Lecturer
Charles University in Prague, CZ

2016 – 2018

Senior Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations & deputy Director of the „Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies“ (CEFEUS)
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

2014 – 2016

Research Associate in Societal & Political Responses to Corruption in Europe
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

2012 – 2014

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PGTA)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

2008 – 2009

Student Research Assistant
Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), DE

🇬🇧 Education / 🇩🇪 Ausbildung

2017 – 2018

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

2010 – 2015

PhD in Political Science
University College London, UK
– Thesis „Veto et Peto: Patterns of Presidential Activism in Central and Eastern Europe”
– Winner of the „ECPR Jean Blondel PhD – Prize 2016 for the best thesis in politics”
– Funded by the SSEES Foundation & SSEES Excellence Scholarship

2009 – 2010

MA (with distinction) in Politics, Security and Integration,
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

2006 – 2009

BA (1:1) in Political Science (minor subject: Public Law),
University of Mannheim, DE