Short CV

• Since 01/2018: Research Fellow at the Center for East European and International Sudies (ZOiS) Berlin

• 06/2017 – 08/2017: Visiting Researcher at the OSCE Academy Bishkek

• 02/2017 – 04/2017: Visiting Researcher at the School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

• 08/2016 – 01/2017: Visiting scholar at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) in Copenhagen, Denmark

• Since 09/2015: PhD Candidate, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, Free University Berlin

• 08/2015 – 08/2016: External consultant for GIZ programs Peace and Security and National Minorities in Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia

• 09/2013 – 08/2014: MA Word Politics, Moscow Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia (double degree)

• 10/2012 – 04/2015: MA International Relations, Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, University of Potsdam (joint degree)

• 2011 – 2016: Internships at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU (Brussels, Belgium), the Center for Central and Eastern Europe of the Robert Bosch Foundation at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP, Berlin), Carnegie Moscow Center (Moscow, Russia), the EU Delegation to the Republic of Uzbekistan (EEAS, Tashkent, Uzbekistan) and at Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Sector Program Peace and Security (Berlin), External consultant for GIZ programs Peace and Security and National Minorities in Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia

• 09/2010 – 07/2011: Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

• 2008 – 2012: BA European Studies, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Research Interests

• Transformation Processes in the Post-Soviet Space

• Regional Integration and Regional Organizations

• Regional Security Cooperation and Integration

• European Integration and Europeanization Processes

KFG Research Project

Integration and Fragmentation – Explaining Varieties of Regionalism in the Post-Soviet Space

• 2018: Central Asia and Russia’s presidential election, ZOiS spotlight 8/2018, https://en.zois-berlin.de/publications/zois-spotlight/central-asia-and-russias-presidential-election/.

• 2018: Russlands Rolle in Zentralasien: Ringen um Einfluss und Verbündete, in: Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West (RGOW) 2/2018.

• 2018: Kyrgyzstan and the Eurasian Economic Union – A Partnership with Obstacles, in: OSCE Policy Brief No. 45, Bishkek: OSCE Academy Bishkek, http://www.osce-academy.net/en/news/full/478.html.

• 2017: Regionalism in Eurasia – Explaining Authority Transfers to Regional Organizations, in: KFG Working Paper No. 82, Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.

• 2017: Presidential Elections in Kyrgyzstan – A Democratic Exception in Autocratic Central Asia? in: WZB Democracy Blog, 2017, https://democracy.blog.wzb.eu/2017/11/02/presidential-elections-in-kyrgyzstan/.

• co-authored with Salome Minesashvili 2017: The Global Increase of Hybrid Warfare: The Case of Russia’s Warfare in Ukraine, in: Long Shots and Bold Claims, Polis Paper No. 2, http://polis180.org/polisblog/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/02/Polis-Paper-2.pdf.

• 2016: The Pivotal Role of Women in Ukraine’s Peacebuilding Process, in: Polis Blog, http://polis180.org/polisblog/2016/12/08/women-ukraine-peacebuilding/.

• 2014: No European Impact in Central Asia?, in: Eurasia Outlook, http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=54790.

• 2014: A Shift in the EU Strategy for Central Asia, Carnegie Moscow Center, http://carnegie.ru/publications/?fa=55483.

• co-authored with et al. 2013: Kreativer Protest im öffentlichen Raum: Artivismus als Kanal des politischen Engagements, in: PROJEKT EUROPA 2012/13, Jahrespublikation des Studienkollegs zu Berlin, 58-84.

• 2012: Erste Jahrestagung des Deutsch-Portugiesischen Forums: Perspektiven einer starken Partnerschaft in schweren Zeiten, in: integration 02/2013, Baden Baden: Nomos, 146-155.