Brief Biography

Education

2015 Habilitation, University of Potsdam

2010-11 Post-Doc Fellow, Harvard University

2009 PhD in Political Science, University of Potsdam

2007 Visiting Fellow, San Francisco State University

2004 Master in Political Science and North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2001-02 DAAD-Visiting Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Academic Positions

since 4/2019 DFG Heisenberg Fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin

10/2015-3/2019 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 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 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 Visiting 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

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

Grants

2015-2017 German Research Foundation (DFG): Constructivist Emotion Research. The

Power Potential of Emotion and Language in International Status Conflicts,

Grant Amount: 32, 944 Euro

2013 DAAD-Travel Grant, ISA Convention 2014, Toronto

2012 DAAD-Travel Grant, ISA Convention 2013, San Francisco

2011 DAAD-Travel Grant, International Conference on "Regional Integration",

Johannesburg

2011-2012 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung: Friendship and International Relations. Conceptions and

Practices (in cooperation with Harvard University), Grant amount: 20,000 Euro

2009 Heinrich Böll Foundation/Canadian Embassy: The Arctic: Governance,

Development and International Cooperation (in cooperation wth Dr. David

Bosold), Grant amount: 17,000 Euro

2006-2009 German Marshall Fund of the United States: Understanding US Foreign Policy

and Renewing the Transatlantic Partnership (in cooperation with Prof. Dr.

Eberhard Sandschneider), Grant amount: 240,000 US Dollar

2006-2008 Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Workshop Series on Transatlantic Relations (in

cooperation with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider), Grant Amount: 17,600 Euro

2006-2008 Doctoral Research Grant, funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Membership

German Political Science Association (DVPW)

International Studies Association (ISA)

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 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

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)

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Fulbright Commission

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

News

I will present my paper "Emotions, History, and International Relations" at the annual workshops organized by the BISA Historical Sociology and IR Working Group on December 7 at Sussex University and by the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group on December 17 at Aston University.

On November 22-23, I look very much forward to participating in a workshop on security communities, organized by the VITRI Violence, Trauma and Justice Project at Charles University Prague.

My book Normative Change and Security Community Disintegration (Palgrave Macmillan 2016) received the Ernst Otto Czempiel Award for the best postdoctoral monograph published in the field of peace research.

Simon was awarded with the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship by the German Research Council (DFG) to lead a research project on "Emotional Communities in World Politics"

On October 10-11, I participated in a workshop at the University of Hamburg on "Norms between Normality and Normativity" .

On September 27, I joined a panel on "Is there a limit to human rights?" at the DVPW Congress "Frontiers of Democracy" in Frankfurt/Main.

I presented my paper "Beyond stigmatization: Naming, shaming, and reintegration in world politics" at the ECPR General Conference in Hamburg (August 24) and the EISA Annual Conference in Prague September 15).

On August 3, I gave a talk on "Transatlantic Relations in the Trump Era" at the Summer School 2018, organized by the Atlantic Academy in Rhineland Palatinate.

On July 3, Simon participated in a workshop on "Emotions and Trust in NATO-Russia Relations" at the Gerda Henkel Forum at King's College Center for Strategic Communication in London.

On May 4/5, Simon co-organized the workshop "Norms and Agency" at the University of Potsdam.

On April 26, Simon gave a talk at the German Federal Academy for Security Policy.

On April 1, Simon joined the academic advisory board of the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy (KFIBS)

On April 6, Simon organized and chaired a roundtable at this year's ISA in San Francisco on "Emotions and Power in World Politics"

Simon gave a talk at an academic career workshop for the Fulbright scholars at the Berlin Seminar 19 March 2018.

On 6 February 2018, Simon gave a guest lecture on "Emotional communities: The case of NATO" at the University of Gießen.

Simon was appointed liaison lecturer (Vertrauensdozent) by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

My new journal article on "Emotions and the Social Construction of the Democratic Peace" is out now (Cooperation and Conflict)

The forum in International Studies Review on "Discourse and Emotion in International Relations" is out now, including contributions by Todd Hall, Reinhard Wolf, Ty Solomon, Emma Hutchison, Roland Bleiker, and myself.