Positions:

09/2011 – Marie Curie fellow at the department of politics of the University of Exeter.

08/2010– Associate member of the Observatoire Social Européen (OSE), Brussels.

04/2009-07/2010: Project partner of the Jean Monnet Multilateral Research Group "European Economic and Social Constitutionalism after the Treaty of Lisbon – an Interdisciplinary Perspective", European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme, coordinated by Dagmar Schiek, University of Leeds.

01/2009 – Associate member of RECON (Reconstituting Democracy in Europe)

10/2008 – Senior researcher and lecturer at the CEuS, University Bremen.

05/2008-09/2008: Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research (eif) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

02/2008-05/2008: Project cooperation with Prof. Beate Kohler-Koch at the working unit “The political systems of Europe and their integration” at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

2006-2008: Lecturer at the Humboldt University Berlin in European Social Policy and European integration theory.

2006: Lecturer at the Georg-August University Göttingen in European Social Policy.

09/2002-05/2003: Coordinator of youth policy at the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelische Jugend, Hanover.

02/2001-08/2002: EU-Project coordinator in the field of disadvantaged youth, Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelische Jugendsozialarbeit, Stuttgart.

11/1999-04/2000: Internship at the research department of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), Geneva.

09/1999-10/1999: Internship at the Paris Office of the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung.

1997-1999: Student assistant to Professor Dr. Claus Offe, Political Sociology and Social Policy, Humboldt University Berlin.

09/1996-06/1997: Administrative assistance to the Berlin office of Mladi Most (cultural youth project in Mostar).

1994-1995: Student assistant to Professor Dr. Rainer Lepsius, Sociology, Humboldt University zu Berlin.

09/1990-02/1992: Voluntary peace service in the USA with Action Reconciliation / Service for Peace.

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