Curriculum Vitae
Since 10/2012
Professorship for political science with a focus on international integration at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.
10/2011-
9/2011
Privat lecturer with the rank of academic adviser at the institute for social science, subject political science of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
SS 2011
Venia Legendi for political science at Kiel University and completion of the habilitation procedure with a paper on "Strategies for promoting democracy in the Council of Europe and the OSCE - no carrots and no sticks"
2008-2011
2003-2007
Research assistant at the Institute for Social Science, in the field of political science at Kiel University.
2009-10
Project manager: Democratization through non-military NATO cooperation? On the role of NATO in post-socialist states.
10/2006-
06/2010
Project manager in the EU-funded project "EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development" (ENEPO), in collaboration with the Institute for World Economy.
7/2005-
12/2010
Project manager of the VW project "Political and Economic Challenges of Resource-Based Development in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan", Kiel University in collaboration with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Development and empirical verification of the model of a "post-Soviet rentier state".
4/2009-
9/2009
Substitute professor for political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
10/2007-
9/2008
Substitute professor for political science at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
5/2005-
5/2006
Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin
3/2004
Eurofaculty – visiting professor (DAAD) at the University of Tartu/Estonia
4/2002 -
4/2003
Head of the Office for East Central Europe, at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin.
1/2002
Exams to PhD at the Faculty of Social Science at the Ruhr University Bochum. Topic of the dissertation: Ethnic Minorities in Poland's Transformation and Consolidation Process. Associations and political institutions (first reviewer Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bleek, second reviewer Prof. Dr. Ulrich Widmaier).
11/2001 -
4/2002
Research assistant in the start-up funding project on "Strategies of environmental policy in young democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America in comparison", Ruhr University Bochum.
seit 9/2000 -
3/2005
Member of the interdisciplinary project group "Human Rights and the Protection of Minorities" of the German Commission for Justice and Peace
11/1999 -
10/2001
Research assistant in the VW-research project on "Ethnic minorities and the transformation process in Poland", Ruhr University Bochum
3/1999
DAAD-scholarship for Poland
7/1999
Approval of a PhD scholarship from the Cusanuswerk.
7/1997 -
10/1999
Research assistant at the Faculty for Social Science, Chair of Political Science I (Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bleek) at the Ruhr University Bochum.
1997
Master's thesis with Prof. Dr. Hans Mommsen on "Resistance in the Ghettos of Warsaw and Bialystok", Faculty of History, Ruhr University Bochum
9-10/1993
Stay at the Institute for Polish Language and Culture at the University of Wroclaw, Poland
1989-1997
Studied modern history, social and economic history, with political science and social economics as minor subjects at the Ruhr University in Bochum
Memberships:
- German Political Science Association (GPSA)
- German Association for East European Studies
- German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
- German Society for Political Science (DGfP)