Profile

Professional career

• since 10/2024
  Research Associate and doctoral student at the Institute of Political Science, Leipzig University
• 03/2024 - 08/2024
  Blue Book Traineeship DG NEAR, European Commission, Brussels
• 07/2023 - 03/2024
  Editorial assistant for the ZeFKo Journal Studies in Peace and Conflict
• 04/2023 - 03/2024
  Research Assistant at the Chair of International Relations and Transnational Politics, Leipzig University
• 03/2020 - 04/2023
  Research assistant in the MetaKLuB project at the chair of Civic Education and Education Systems, Leipzig University
• 10/2018 - 12/2018
  Internship in Unit 601 of the Federal Foreign Office
• 04/2018 - 09/2018
  Internship and subsequent project work at the Regional Agency for Civic Education Saxony-Anhalt and the Europe Direct Information Centre Magdeburg

Education

• 10/2019 - 08/2023
  Master of Arts Political Science, Leipzig University
• 08/2021 - 06/2022
  Studies abroad at Södertörns Högskola, Stockholm (Sweden)
• 10/2015 - 01/2019
  Bachelor of Arts European Studies, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
• 08/2017 - 01/2018
  Studies abroad at St Petersburg State University (Russia)

• Transnational networks: Analysis of civil society organisations (CSOs), especially in post-Soviet states
• Geopolitical dynamics: Investigating the ideological tensions between liberal and illiberal regimes and their transnational entanglements
• Civil society and discourse: research into the role of civil society actors in political mobilisation and discourse formation
• Methods: Expert interviews, qualitative content analysis, social and discourse network analysis
• Focus regions: EU members, EU accession candidates and non-aligned states in Eastern Europe

• Theories of Civil Society

  Seminar in the basic module Political Theory, University of Leipzig (winter term 24/25)

• The EU in practice

  Seminar in the module European Studies/Organisation of Power, Institute of Political Science, University of Leipzig (winter semester 24/25)