CV

Academic experience

• 09/2019 Deputy Director, Institute for German and European Studies and Lecturer, European Politics, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birminham
• 09/2018 to date Research fellow, Global Europe Centre, University of Kent
• 08/2015-08/2018 Lecturer, Political Science/European Studies, Department of Politics, Maastricht University
• 08/2014-07/2015 Lecturer, International Studies, Leiden University
• 2010-2015 Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher & PhD Candidate, Department of Politics, History, and International Relations, Loughborough University
• 2010 Lecturer, Department of Politics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
• 03/2007-12/2009 Faculty member, European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht

Previous professional experience (2004-07)

• Research Associate, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional Bureau for Eastern Europe and the CIS, Bratislava Regional Centre, Slovakia
• Assistant to the Director, TÜSIAD Turkish Industrialists’ Association, Berlin Office, Germany
• Parliamentary Assistant to Vural Öger, MEP, European Parliament, Brussels
• EU Public Affairs Consultant, Brussels
• In-service trainee Council of the European Union Secretariat-General, Brussels
• Intern, United Nations Development Programme, Slovakia

Education

10/2010-07/2015 PhD, Loughborough University, Department of Politics, History and International Relations.

Thesis: ‘Kingdom of the Middle: The Inception, Establishment and Consolidation of the European External Action Service’ Supervisors: Prof Dave Allen (Loughborough), Prof Michael H. Smith (Warwick), Prof Helen Drake (Loughborough). External examiner: Prof Richard G. Whitman (Kent)

09/2012-06/2013 Visiting PhD Student, University of Cambridge (1 academic year) hosted by Dr Julie Smith

08/2003-06/2004 Postgraduate diploma in European Studies, College of Europe, Natolin

10/1997-01/2002 Master of Public Policy and Management (Dipl.-Verwaltungswissenschaftler), University of Konstanz

08/2000 – 06/2001 Graduate studies, Department of Political Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Other professional activities

Reviewer for Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict Journal of the Nordic Studies Association, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

Membership in professional associations

University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

European Union Studies Association of the US (EUSA)

Awards & fellowships

John F. Kennedy Institute Library Research Fellowship, Free University of Berlin (2017)

German Ministry of Education scholarship to College of Europe, fully funded (2003)

Haniel Foundation Go East Programme (2003)

German Academic Exchange Scholarship to Rutgers University, fully funded (2000)