Biography

Employement

03/2015 – 02/2016

• Researcher, Project ‘Where Is My Party? Determinants of Voter Agreement about the Ideological Positions of Political Parties’, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (DFG-project coordinated by Marc Debus, University of Mannheim, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin, Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis)

10/2013 – 09/2014

• Researcher, Project ‘Going Local: Determinants of Institutional Changes of Local Government and their Implications for Political Par¬ticipation and Political Decision-Making in West European Democracies’, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (project coordinated by Marc Debus, University of Mannheim)

09/2012 – 02/2016

• Research and Teaching Assistant, Professorship of Political Science III, Comparative Government, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim

04/2012 – 09/2012

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘The Political System of Germany’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

04/2011 – 09/2011

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘The Political System of Germany’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10/2010 – 03/2011

• Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair of ‘Deutsche Regierungssysteme im europäischen Vergleich’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

10/2009 – 03/2010

• Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), Chair of ‘Deutsche Regierungssysteme im europäischen Vergleich’, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

03/2008 – 07/2008

• Student Assistant, Project ‘Demokratiemuster in den deutschen Bundesländern und ihre politischen, gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Auswirkungen’ (DFG-project coordinated by Markus Freitag and Adrian Vatter), University of Konstanz

12/2007 – 12/2007

• Student Assistant, Chair of International Relations and Conflict Management, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Uni¬versity of Konstanz

Education

07/2015

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; PhD in Political Science (Dr. phil.). Title of dissertation: Koalitionsbildungsprozesse auf kommunaler Ebene: Schwarz-Grün in deutschen Großstädten (summa cum laude; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Torsten Oppelland; Prof. Dr. Marc Debus)

12/2010 – 07/2015

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Ph.D. candidate in political science

10/2008 – 09/2010

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena; Master of Arts in ‘Geschichte und Politik des 20. Jahrhunderts’

10/2005 – 09/2008

• University of Konstanz; Bachelor of Arts in Political and Administrative Science