About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg where I joined the Chair for Multi-Level Governance in December 2019. I am leading the project “Overlapping Regionalism in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe Compared”, which is funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

I completed my studies in political science at Freie Universität Berlin and Université de Montréal with a specialization in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism. Previously, I was a research associate at the Research College (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe?” and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood” at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2016, I defended my PhD thesis on diffusion processes between regional organizations in the area of democracy, human rights, and rule of law promotion and protection. Afterwards, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg in the project “External Funding of Regional Organizations in Africa – What works, and why?“ (EFRO), funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). I served as the interim Chair for International Organizations and Globalization at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena during the academic year 2018-19 and as the interim Chair for Multi-Level Governance at the University of Freiburg during the summer term 2023.

Between 2018 and 2021, I served as co-spokesperson of the Standing Group on European Studies and Comparative Regionalism (AKER) of the German Political Science Association (DVPW). Previously, I was one of the coordinators of the DVPW’s thematic group on comparative regionalism between 2015 and 2018.