Since 2018 – Managing Director of the Collaborative Research Center 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy"

2012 - 2018 – Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen

2011 - 2012 – Research Fellow at the University of Bremen and Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS); coordination and organisation of the ECPR Graduate Student Conference in Bremen in July 2012

2010 - 2011 – PhD Scholarship (Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, BIGSSS)

2008 - 2011 – PhD Fellow at Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen; successful defense of the PhD Project in March 2012

2009 - 2010 – Research Fellow at the University of Bremen

2007 - 2009 – Project Management and Coordination of the Master of Arts Programme in International Relations: Global Governance and Social Theory, Jacobs University Bremen

2005 - 2007 – Graduate Studies in "International Relations: Global Governance and Social Theory" at Jacobs University Bremen and University of Bremen

2001 - 2005 – Undergraduate Studies in Roman Language and Literature and Political Science at the University of Bochum, with stays in Istanbul (Turkey) and Nice (France)