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