CV

Education

12/2015 Habilitation, University of Potsdam

3/2009 PhD in Political Science, University of Potsdam

9/2004 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 Studies Quarterly

Global Discourse

Global Society

Journal of Common Market Studies

Journal of Global Security Studies

Journal of International Peace and Organization

Journal of International Relations and Development

Oxford University Press

Palgrave Macmillan

Political Psychology

SAGE Publications

Manchester University Press

Third World Quarterly

Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik

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 15 April, I talked about my new book "The Power of Emotions in World Politics" at the Security and Anxiety Colloquium at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.

OUT NOW: two edited volumes on emotions in international relations.

At the virtual ISA Convention 2021 , I organized and chaired the panel WD42: Emotions and Peace (7 April).

On 5 February 2021, I presented my research at the workshop "Visuality and Emotions in International Politics", organozed by the University of Duisburg-Essen.

On 13 January 2021, I presented my current book project at the UK Political Psychology Conference. The presentation can be viewed on youtube.

I contributed to the latest issue of the German policy journal Internationale Politik on how emotions underpin and challenge the liberal international order.

I now serve as Principle Investigator (PI) in the joint research project Social Cohesion and Civil Society: Interaction Dynamics in Times of Disruption. The project is funded by the Berlin University Alliance. The interdisciplinary project is a collaboration between 12 PIs (HU Berlin, TU, Berlin, FU Berlin) in cooperation with the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).

My interview with Der Tagesspiegel on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations.

In December 2020, I participated in an online panel on "Emotions and Peace" at the Oceanic Conference on International Studies (OCIS) as well as a workshop at the Australian National University in Canberra.

From October 7-9, 2020 I chaired an online panel on "Emotions in international politics" at the Conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) in Freiburg, Germany.

On September 21, I participated in a virtual roundtable for the Emotion in Politics and International Relations Book Prize 2020 of the British International Studies Association (BISA).

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