
Since Feb. 2009
Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Vienna
July 2008 – February 2009
Transatlantic Post Doc Fellow for International Relations (TAPIR) at the Institut Français
des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris
Oct. 2007 – July 2008
TAPIR Fellow at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Oct. 2004 - Oct. 2007
Scholar in the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
March 2006 – March 2007
Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna
Aug. 2005 – Oct. 2005
Project Consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Jerusalem
November 2002 – June 2004
Research Assistant at ARIJ, AIC, LAW, Jerusalem
April 2002 – July 2002
Intern at the European Parliament, Brussels and Strasbourg
Aug. 2000 – Oct. 2000
Intern at ILOI-Consulting, Munich
March 2008
PhD in Political Science (awarded with distinction), University of Vienna
February 2006
Master degree in Political Science from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich,
minor subjects Economics and European Law
January 2000 – July 2000
Exchange student at Malta International University/Mediterranean School of Diplomacy
THESEUS-Summer School in Brussels (July 2008) – Lecture on the EU’s Mediterranean Policy
European School of Governance in Berlin (May 2008/December 2007) – Lectures on the EU’s Middle East Policy
Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen (February 2008) - Lecture on the EU and the Conflict in the Middle East
University of Vienna (2006/2007) – Courses on International Relations Theory and European Foreign Policy
English (fluent)
French (good)
Arabic (basic)
Hebrew (basic)