Short CV

• Currently covering a PostDoc position at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• 09/2012 - 04/2013: PhD Candidate, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Hertie School of Governance, Social Science Research Center Berlin

• since 04/2012: Program Assistant, Program Chair's Office International Studies Association (ISA) 2013 Annual Convention, Prof. Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Herman Schwartz

• 10/2006 – 12/2011: Freie Universität Berlin, Diplom Politikwissenschaften

• 08/2008 – 05/2009: Université de Montréal, M.A. sciences politiques

• practical experience with among others European Academy Berlin, the Institute for European Politics, and the Chair for European Integration at Freie Universität Berlin

Main Fields of Interest

• Comparative Regionalism

• Diffusion Processes

• EU External Relations

• European and African Regional Integration

KFG Research Project

The EU is not the only game in town – disentangling global and regional patterns of diffusion in comparative regionalism

• co-authored with Börzel, T. A. 2015: A Global Script in Regional Colors: Mapping Governance Transfer by Twelve Regional Organizations, in: Börzel, Tanja A./van Hüllen, Vera (eds): Governance Transfer by Regional Organizations: Patching Together a Global Script, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 22-50.
• co-authored with Kirschner, V. 2012: Does regime type matter? Regional integration from the nation states' perspectives in ECOWAS, in: Börzel, T. A./Goltermann, L./Lohaus, M./Striebinger, K. (eds): Roads to Regionalism. Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations, Farnham: Ashgate, 141-157.