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 Studies Quarterly
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