CV

Education

2015 Habilitation, University of Potsdam

2009 PhD in Political Science, University of Potsdam

2004 Magister in Political Science and North American Studies,

Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam, UNC Chapel Hill

Academic Positions

since 4/2019 DFG Heisenberg Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2015-3/2019 Full Visiting Professor, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie

Universität Berlin

9/2011-9/2015 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), International Studies,

University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

9/2010-5/2011 Fritz Thyssen Fellowship, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,

Harvard University

4/2009-9/2010 Acting Juniorprofessor for North American Foreign and Security Policy

(W-1), Department of Political Science, John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North

American Studies, Free University Berlin

2/2006-3/2009 Research Fellow, Transatlantic Program, German Council on Foreign

Relations (DGAP)

7/2007 Fulbright Fellow, San Francisco State University, USA

9/2001-4/2002 Research Assistant, School of Government, University of North Carolina at

Chapel Hill

Fellowships

2019-2014 Heisenberg Fellowship, funded by the German Research Council (DFG)

2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

2009-2010 Research Fellowship, funded by the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

2007 Research Fellowship, funded by the Fulbright Commission

2001 DAAD Student Scholarship

Awards

2018 Ernst Otto Czempiel Award of the Leibnitz Peace Research Institute

Frankfurt (HSFK) for the best postdoctoral monograph in the field of Peace

Research

2014 Best Paper Award of the German Political Science Association (DVPW), IR

Section

2014 Teaching Award, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University

of Erlangen-Nürnberg

2002 Dean‘s List of Academic Excellence, University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill

Membership

German Political Science Association (DVPW)

International Studies Association (ISA)

European International Studies Association (EISA)

British International Studies Association (BISA)

ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR)

Italian Standing Group on International Relations (SGRI)

Invited Reviewer

American Political Science Review

European Journal of International Relations

Review of International Studies

British Journal of Political Science

Millennium

International Theory

International Relations

International Studies Quarterly

International Studies Review

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Cooperation and Conflict

Foreign Policy Analysis

Global Discourse

Global Society

Journal of Global Security Studies

Journal of International Relations and Development

Oxford University Press

Political Psychology

SAGE Publications

Palgrave Macmillan

Manchester University Press

Third World Quarterly

Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Die Friedens-Warte: Journal of International Peace and Organization

Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

Amerikastudien/American Studies

InterDiscipline: Journal of History and Sociology

Leibnitz Association

German Research Foundation/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

German Foundation of Peace Research

Israel Science Foundation

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Fulbright Commission

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

News

On the current crisis in NATO, the Tagesspiegel has reported on my research on the disintegration of international security organizations: click here for more.

On September 26/27, I will take part in a workshop on methods in foreign policy analysis at the University of Erfurt, organized by the DVPW theme group "Foreign and Security Policy".

On September 12, I will present two papers on emotions, history, and IR as well as ritual interaction in the transatlantic security community, at the Pan-European Conference on International Relations (EISA) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

On June 4, I presented my work on "Emotional Communities in International Relations" at the Research Colloquium of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

On April 25/26, I participated in the second Gerda Henkel Forum at MGIMO University in Moscow, Russia.

On April 24, I gave a presentation at the German Federal Academy of Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin, Germany.

On April 8/9, I gave the keynote lecture on "Passions From The Past: Emotions, History, and International Relations" at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.

On March 27, I presented my paper "Emotions, History, and International Relations" at the ISA Annual Convention in Toronto.

Two new journal articles are out in the Journal of International Political Theory on the political contestation of emotional meanings and Politics and Governance (open access) on emotion and method, respectively.

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctorate monograph in the field of peace research. It is now out in paperback.

I was awarded with a Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Council (DFG)