Academic Appointments

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

September 2014 - present

Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Comparative Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen (Norway).

August 2015 - present

Director of the BA programme in European Studies (University of Bergen)

PAST APPOINTMENTS

April 2018 - October 2022

Managing Editor of the journal Regional and Federal Studies.

September 2012 - October 2022

Editor of the journal Regional and Federal Studies (together with Louise Tillin, Imke Harbers, and Christina Zuber).

June 2014 - January 2022

Editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series on Comparative Territorial Politics (together with Agustina Giraudy and Arjan Schakel).

September 2012 - September 2014

Associate Professor for Comparative Politics, Department of Comparative Politics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen (Norway).

April 2012 - March 2018

Chair and Founder of the Council for European Studies research network on Territorial Politics and Federalism (Columbia University, New York, together with Michael W. Bauer and then with Agustina Giraudy).

September 2010 - September 2012

Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Chair of Politics and Public Administration (Lehrstuhl Politik und Verwaltung), Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany).

September 2006 - August 2010

Researcher, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence (Italy). Funded by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry (2006-9) and the French Ministry of Education and Research (2009-10).

Additional positions filled on a fixed-term or part-time basis included:

Research Assistant, for Prof. Dr. Anne Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen). Project funded by the Danish Research Council on the Europeanization of national interest groups and parties in Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Research Assistant, for Prof. Dr. Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen), project commissioned by the Committee of the Regions for a Study on the Division of Powers between the European Union, the Member States, and Regional and Local Authorities (2008, 322 pages). [PDF]

Fixed-Term Lecturer, Monash University Prato Centre (Italy, 2009 only).