Megatrends Afrika Project Director
EU-Africa relations, China-Africa relations, political regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, EU support for democracy, human rights and good governance, EU external relations, EU development policy,
2019-2021 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Head of Programme, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation"
2018-2019 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Senior Researcher, Research Programme "Inter- and transnational cooperation with the Global South"
2008-2017 German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Researcher
Summer Semester 2017, University of Bayreuth, Visiting Assistant Professor of African Politics and Development Policy
2010-2014 Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies, PhD candidate, dissertation: The EU and China in Africa authoritarian regimes. The politics of cooperating on governance reforms in the 21st century.
2002-2008 Free University of Berlin and Sciences Po Paris, Franco-German Double Diploma Programme, Diplom in Political Science, Research Master, comparative regional politics, specialty Asia