Professional Career
Since Oct. 2018 Professor for European Studies, University of Vienna, Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), and Vienna School for International Studies.
Sept. 2015 – Oct. 2018 Senior Research Fellow, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain.
March 2013 – July 2015: Board member of Summer School on European Policy-Making (jointly organized by Free University of Brussels, Diplomatic Academy Vienna, University of Vienna).
February 2009 – Sept. 2015: Assistant Professor at the Institute for European Integration Research (EIF) at Vienna University (formerly part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences).
December 2009 – March 2010: Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellow for International Relations (TAPIR) at the Johns Hopkins University – Centre for Transatlantic Relations, Washington DC (on leave from EIF).
July 2008 – February 2009: Post Doc Fellow (TAPIR) at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), Paris.
October 2007 – July 2008: Post Doc Fellow (TAPIR) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin.
March 2006 – March 2007: External lecturer at Vienna University.
Dec 2002 – July 2004: Consultant for United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Jerusalem; project officer for the NGO’s Law and ARIJ in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Academic Education
May 2018 Habilitation (venia docendi) at Vienna University.
March 2005 – March 2008: PhD-student at Vienna University. Dr. Phil. awarded with highest distinction in March 2008.
October 2004 – September 2007: Scholar at the post-graduate program in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna.
September 1996 – February 2002: Studies of political science, economics and European law at the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich.