About Me
"The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it." (Camus)
Work experience
07/2020 until now: Executive Management 1, Political Communication and General Issues, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Nuremberg
10/2021-until 04/2024: Lecturer, Institute for Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
02/2020-06/2020: Executive Management 3, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and Parliamentary Inquiries, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Nuremberg
10/2016-02/2020: Assistant Professor, Chair of German and Comparative Politics, European Studies and Political Economy, Institute for Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
05/2019: Visiting Researcher: Andrássy Universität Budapest (Political Science)
03/2019: Visiting Researcher: School of Language and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire
02/2018: Visiting Researcher: Cultural Political Economy Research Centre (CPERC), Lancaster University
10/2015-09/2016: Research Assistant, Institute for Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2013-09/2014: Lecturer, Institute for Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
04/2013-09/2013: Research Assistant, Chair of German and Comparative Politics, European Studies and Political Economy, Institute for Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
03/2012-09/2012: Assistant, Change&Communication, HUK-COBURG-Building Association
Education
10/2012–02/2016: PhD in Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
06/2013–10/2015: Doctoral Research Group "Democracy in Europe", Hanns Seidel Foundation
10/2012–09/2015: PhD Scholarship, Hanns Seidel Foundation
10/2005–02/2012: Diploma in Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
08/2009–05/2010: Exchange Student, PhD-Programm "Political Science", Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Training
05/2023-11/2023: Leadership compact, Bundesakademie für öffentliche Verwaltung
10/2022-01/2023: Public Relations, Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
07/2022: Communicating and Cooperating, Bundesakademie für öffentliche Verwaltung
01/2016: WordSmith-Workshop with Mike Scott, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
03/2015: Projekt Management, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
03/2015: Human Resource Management and Team Management, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
02/2015: Developing and Leading Diverse Teams - Diversity Management, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
02/2015: Survey Design, ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques, Bamberg
10/2014–01/2015: Introduction in Human Resource Management, Virtuelle Hochschule Bayern
07/2013: Depth Hermeneutics and Dispositif Analysis, Berlin
05/2013: Introduction to SPSS, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2012/13: Statistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Positions and Honorary Offices
11/2012–11/2020: Bord of Directors "Alumni Politikwissenschaft Erlangen" (APE) e.V.
10/2019–02/2020: Representative of the Mid-Level Faculty Members, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
11/2015–02/2020: Working Group "Quality Management Teaching" Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2018–10/2019: Representative of the Mid-Level Faculty Members, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
10/2016–10/2019: Erasmus Programme Coordinator, Chair of Political Science I, Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
11/2012–11/2014: Driver, Erlanger Tafel
05/2000–06/2007 + 07/2011–12/2013: Youth Leader, Evangelical Church of Scheuerfeld-Weidach
07/2011 – 09/2013: Organisation of a Multicultural Football Training