Biography

2018

• Professor of Comparative Politics at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at LMU Munich (pro tempore, 2018/19)
• Habilitation in political science
• Deputy convenor and treasurer of the Standing Group on Parliaments of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR)

2014

• Member of the editorial board of the Italian Political Science Review
• Member of the Munich Center on Governance
• Member of the Munich Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2013

• Visiting scholar at the Constitution Unit, University College London, Centre des Études Européennes, Sciences Po Paris & University of Stockholm
• Schumpeter-Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation at the Chair for Political System and European Integration (research project entitled "What do parliaments actually do? Parliamentary agenda powers between legitimacy, effectiveness, and efficiency")

2011-12

• Participation in the Potsdam Graduate School’s Senior Teaching Professionals programme

2011

• Post-doc prize of the federal state of Brandenburg for "The Politics of Party Funding"

2010

• Funding of both a research and a student assistant from the University of Potsdam’s innovation fund

2009

• Lecturer in German and European Politics and Government (University of Potsdam)
• Friedrich-Christoph-Dahlmann prize for best social science PhD in Social Sciences (University of Göttingen)

2008

• PhD in Political Science (University of Göttingen)
• Printing grants for publication of PhD, VG Wort & Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
• ESRC scholarship for attending the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

2007-09

• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford & Department of Politics, University of Göttingen)

2006-07

• Visiting Scholar (Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences)

2005-06

• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies (University of Sussex)

2004-07

• PhD Scholarship, German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2004

• Research travel scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

2002-04

• Research Assistant, Department of Political Science (University of Göttingen)

2002

• MA in Political Science, History and Public Law (University of Göttingen)

2000-02

• Tutor, Centre for European and North American Studies (University of Göttingen)