Curriculum Vitae
Academic Employment
10/2010 to present. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. Post-doctoral Researcher & Lecturer. Centre for Comparative and International Studies.
08/2011 - 09/2012. European University Institute (EUI) Florence, Italy. Max Weber Fellow. Social and Political Science Department.
9/2012-08/2013. University of Warwick, United Kingdom. Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow. Department of Politics and International Studies.
02-06/2012. James Madison University, Florence Campus, Italy. Lecturer. M.A. in European Policy Studies.
10/2010-02/2011. University of Zurich, Switzerland. Scientific Coordinator of the Doctoral Program, National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Democracy.
03/2006-10/2010. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. Research associate, NCCR Democracy project ‘Promoting Democracy in the EU’s Neighborhood’ (Profs Frank Schimmelfennig and Sandra Lavenex).
10/2006-07/2011. University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Lecturer, M.A. in Global Societies and Global Politics & B.A. in Political Science.
07/2003-03/2006. Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, then Free University Berlin, Germany. Research/teaching assistant, Department of Political Science, (Prof. Tanja Börzel).
Education
Ph.D. in Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland. 2010 (not graded).
Dissertation title: Transnational Influences and Democratic Socialization in Authoritarian Contexts. Committee: Profs Frank Schimmelfennig (director, ETH Zurich), Sandra Lavenex (University of Lucerne), Liesbet Hooghe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/ University of Amsterdam).
M.A. in Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg / University of Mannheim [joint degree], Germany. Minors in Psychology, Media & Communication Studies. 2006 ('with distinction').
Free University of Berlin. Visiting student. 2005/2006.
University of Lausanne. Erasmus exchange student. 2002/2003.