Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023
Professor for Political Science, Police University Baden-Wuerttemberg, Department of Social Sciences
Affiliated researcher at SOCIUM - Research Center for Inequality and Social Policy, Department "Historical and Comparative Welfare State Research"
Since 2021
Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) faculty member, Thematic Field B "Welfare State, Inequality and Quality of Life"
2020-2023
Head of the junior research group “The ‘Activating Welfare State’ – a Political and Social History of German Welfare Policy, 1979-2017, funded by the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs via the “Support Network for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research” (FIS)
2019-2020
Visiting Professorship “Comparative Government Activity Research and Comparative Social Policy”, University of Bremen
2016-2019
Post-Doc-Researcher at the SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Department "Political Economy of the Welfare State"
2015-2016
Researcher at the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in East Germany
2015-2016
Personal assistant to Mr. Hans-Jochen Vogel, former Federal minister of Justice
2014-2015
Researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam.
2014
PhD in History, University of Potsdam
2012-2019
Political speechwriter
2012-2014
Researcher, German Historical Museum, Berlin
2009-2012
Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Department of History, and PhD-Student at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) Potsdam
2009-2010
Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Hagen
2006
Master in Modern History (major), Psychology (minor), Law (minor), Technical University of Berlin and Free University of Berlin
2005
Master in Political Sciences, Otto-Suhr-Institute for Political Sciences, Free University of Berlin
Scholarships/Third-party funds
2022
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship German Historical Institute Washington D.C.
2022
Grant from the Gerda and Hermann Weber Foundation for the organization of the Hermann Weber Conference on Communist studies on the topic "'In the Cold War, the Battalions of Better Welfare Decide' - The Welfare State in the Cold War."
2020
Funding for the junior research group “The ‘Activating Welfare State’ – a Political and Social History of German Welfare Policy, 1979-2017. Funded by the Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs via the “Support Network for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research” (FIS) (551.073 €).
2012
George-Marshall-Scholar, George-Marshall-Society and George-C.-Marshall-International Center in Leesburg, Virginia
2012
Graduation scholarship, Potsdam Graduate School, University of Potsdam
2010
Scholarship, Franco-German-Institute Ludwigsburg (Institut Franco-Allemand)
2010
Go East-Scholarship for the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2009-2011
Doctoral scholarship, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES)
2009
Travel Grant, Elliot School of International Affairs at the George Washington University
2000-2005
Undergraduate scholarship, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (FES)
