Since Oct 2019: Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor), International Relations/Foreign and Security Policy, University of Kaiserslautern

Oct 2022-March 2023: Full Professor (ad interim), International Relations and European Politics, Leibniz University Hannover

Dec 2022: Certificate in University Didactics, State of Rhineland-Palatinate

Oct 2017-Sept 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University

Feb-May 2017: Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (USA)

Feb 2014-Sept 2017: Postdoctoral Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Kaiserslautern

Feb 2014: PhD in International Relations (Dr. phil.), Thesis: "US Congress and the Democratic Control of Military Interventions" (Grade: "summa cum laude")

Dec 2008-Feb 2014: Research Associate and Lecturer in Political Science (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Oct-Dec 2013: Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI), USA

Sept 2010: Fulbright Scholarship, American Studies Institute "Re-Inventing America", San Francisco State University, San Francisco (CA), USA

Aug 2005-July 2006: Exchange Student, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Apr 2003-Dec 2008: Master's Degree in Political Science, History and Economics (M.A.), Heidelberg University, Germany

June 2002-March 2003: Civilian Service (Zivildienst), Neustadt Orthopedic Clinic, Neustadt