Since 2016 Deputy Director of the Institute for Parliamentarism Research (IParl) in Berlin; Lecturer at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

2015 Researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Trier, Chair of Comparative Government (Western Democracies)

2013 to 2014 Researcher at the Bundeswehr Information Center, Strausberg; lecturer at the University of Potsdam

2012 PhD on the recruitment of European parliamentarians, awarded the Science Prize of the German Bundestag in 2015

2006 to 2012 Researcher at the Department of Comparative Government (Western Democracies), University of Trier, Germany

2005 Diploma thesis on population attitudes in the new and old German federal states

1999 to 2004 Studies of Political Science at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg; research assistant at the Sociology Professorship for Methods of Empirical Social Research

1998 to 1999 studies of economics in Leipzig

1997 to 1998 military service in Hannover

1997 Abitur at the Melanchthon Gymnasium in Wittenberg