Professional Experience
SINCE 05/2025
University of Duisburg-Essen
Postdoctoral researcher in the project “Protest Groups in the Aftermath of Mass Protest Campaigns against the State” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Johannes Vüllers
10/2021 – 09/2025
University of Duisburg-Essen
Research Associate in the project “Social openness, social control, and the integration of Muslim immigrants – A panel study in neighborhoods of selected German cities” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Conrad Ziller
05/2019 – 09/2021
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Research assistant at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) Tübingen, Department of Society, Culture and Technological Change
Education
November 2025
PhD (Dr. rer. pol.), University of Duisburg-Essen
Thesis: Unpacking the Role of Local Contexts: How Local Contextual Characteristics Influence Individuals' Political Attitudes in Western European Societies
Grade: summa cum laude
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Conrad Ziller & Prof. Dr. Achim Goerres
2021
M.A. Democracy and Governance in Europe (MADRE), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Thesis: Ein Zusammenspiel von Normen und Interessen – Über die Begründung der EU-Außenpolitik in der Sahelzone (An Interplay of Norms and Interests - On the Rationale of EU Foreign Policy in the Sahel Region); Grade: 1.18
2018
B.A. European Studies Major, University of Passau
Thesis: Föderalismus als Lösung ethnonationalistischer Konflikte? Eine Analyse anhand des Katalonien-Konfliktes (Federalism as a solution to ethnonationalist conflicts? An Analysis on the Catalonia Conflict); Grade: 1.0
SUMMER TERM 2017
Exchange Semester at the University of Málaga, Spain
– funded by a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (DAAD program „Bachelor Plus“)
WINTER TERM 2016/17
Exchange Semester at the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero, Argentina
– funded by the PROMOS scholarship of the DAAD
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