Biography

1968 | Born in Cologne. |
1984 | School student-exchange to the USA at the Carroll High School in Indiana. |
1988 | High School Diploma completed at the City Gymnasium Rheinbach near Bonn. |
1990 - 1996 | Completed a Magister Degree in Politics, Economics and Salvonic Studies in Heidelberg and Paris. |
1997 | Research Associate at the Institute for Political Science at Heidelberg University under Professor Klaus von Beyme. |
1998 | Research Associate for the research project "Pre-emptive Institution Building" at Humboldt-University Berlin under Professor Helmut Wiesenthal. |
1999 - 2003 | Research Associate at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder under Professor Michael Minkenberg. |
2000 | Doctoral Studies at the Heidelberg University with the Dissertation "Democratic Consolidation in Post-Socialist Europe". Nomination of the Dissertation for the Ruprechts-Karl Prize at Heidelberg University in the Philosophical and Historical Faculty. Awarded the Best Dissertation in 2002 from the German Association for Political Science. |
since 2003 | Director of the Master of European Studies Programm at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. |
2003-2008 | Associate Professor / Junior Professor for European Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder. |
since 2009 | Awarded full Professorship of European-Studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt / Oder. |