Senior Research Fellow | Research Team Spokesperson
Since 05/2017: Spokesperson of the Research Team "Interventions and Security", RP 2 "Peace and Security"
05/2018 - 04/2022: Editor of Africa Spectrum
2016 - 2018: Research Fellow in the project "International Diffusion and Cooperation of Authoritarian Regimes - IDCAR-Network" funded by Leibniz Competition
2012 - 2016: Research Fellow in the project "Ineffective Sanctions?: External Sanctions and the Persistence of Autocratic Regimes" funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Since 2012: Research Fellow at the GIGA Instiute of African Affairs
Education: PhD at the University of Hamburg "The 'Internal Opposition Effect' of International Sanctions: Insights from Burundi, Zimbabwe and a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa” (scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foudation); Master "Peace Research and International Politics" at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V.), Bachelor "International Relations" at Dresden University of Technology
International sanctions
Persistence and change of authoritarian regimes
Legitimation of authoritarian regimes
Simbabwe
Burundi