• Since April 2021 Coordinator of the German-French study programmes at the OSI
• March 2021 Defence of the habilitation thesis
• Since June 2019 Associate Fellow, Genshagen Foundation
• Since 2018 Member of the team of spokespersons of the Working Group on Welfare State Research in the DVPW
• Summer 2015-September 2019 Habilitation project "Europeanisation of a national domain? Social policy in the EU multi-level system in times of crisis".
• August 2014-June 2016 Project manager of the research project "Europeanisation of pension policy" funded by the Research Network on Pension of the German Pension Insurance Scheme
• Since April 2013 Research assistant at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of International Relations and European Politics
• April 2011-March 2012 Post-doctoral fellow at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• October 2010 Completion of doctorate
• January 2007-October 2010 PhD project on "Institutionalised stopgap solutions or promising alternative concepts? Norway and Switzerland in the European Integration Process", sponsored by the German National Academic Foundation
• October 2001-December 2006 Studies in Political Science, Nordic Studies and Modern German Literature at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and the University of Oslo, Norway, Master's thesis on "The Nordic Social Model - Success Story or Anachronism?"

- Europeanisation processes in social policy/social policy in the EU multi-level system
- Comparative welfare state research, especially pension and family policy
- European integration, political system and crises of the European Union
- Flexible integration of third countries into the EU
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