
01/2008–Present: Researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW), Vienna
09/2010-12/2010: Scholar of the 2010 EU ISS Visiting Fellows Programme, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris
12/2007-03/2008: Associate Research Fellow for the ‘ENEPO Project – EU Eastern Neighbourhood: Economic Potential and Future development’ (6th EU Framework Programme), The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
03/2006–Present: Lecturer in Politics at the University of Vienna, Austria
10/2004–12/2007: Doctoral student and participant of the programme ‘European Integration 2004-2007’ at the Department of Political Science, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
03–05/2004: Intern at the European Parliament and the Permanent Representation of Austria at the European Union, Brussels and Strasbourg
01/2008: PhD in Political Science (with distinction), University of Vienna, Austria
11/2004: Master Degree in Political Science (with distinction), University of Vienna, Austria
2002–2003: Scholar of the European exchange programme Erasmus, University of Copenhagen
1999–2004: Student of Political Science (major) and a combination of History, Sociology and International Development (minor), University of Vienna
Project leader of Stand-alone project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), ‘The role of supranational institutions in EU Justice and Home Affairs’ (P 23341-G 11), grant of € 136.846,30; project date: 09/2011-08/2013
Winner of the European Foreign Affairs Review Special Issue Competition 2011
EU ISS Visiting Fellowship 2010
EU Consent PhD Award 3rd Winner 2007
Post-Graduate Scholarship, Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004-2007
International Research Scholarship, University of Vienna, March 2004
Erasmus Scholarship, 2002-2003
Reviewer for the Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, European Integration online Papers, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Contemporary European Research, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies and European Security
Member of the Austrian Political Science Association (AUPSA)
Member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and the ECPR Standing Group on South East Europe
Contributor to projects funded by the European Commission under the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes (‘EU Consent - Network of Excellence', ‘LISBOAN – Erasmus Academic Network’)
Participation in the Securint Summer School on ‘EU governance in the field of internal security’, organised by Prof. Jörg Monar, University of Strasbourg (07/2006)
2011-2012; 2007 –2008: Austrian Politics and the EU
2009: Qualitative Methods and EU Foreign Policy Research (joint course with Nicole Alecu de Flers)
2008 –2009: Qualitative Methods and the European Neighbourhood Policy
2006 –2007: EU Justice and Home Affairs
2006: EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (joint course with Patrick Müller)
German native speaker
Fluent, both orally and in writing, in English and French
Basic knowledge of Italian