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Academic Employment
| 09/08 – present: | DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University. |
| 12/04 – present: | Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg (on leave). |
| 03/04 – 11/04: | Post-Doctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, "Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy"-Group, Jena, Germany. |
| 06/04 – 10/04: | Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| 04/02 – 02/04: | Post-Doctoral researcher, Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany. Research project “The Political Economy of Competing Regional Integration”. |
| 04/00 – 03/02: | Research associate with Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz, Germany. Research project "The political economy of foreign economic liberalization in developing countries and transition countries". |
| 10/97 – 03/00: | Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany. |
Education
| 10/02: | Doctoral degree (summa cum laude), University of Konstanz, Germany. Dissertation title: "Double Transformation: Democracy and Foreign Economic Liberalization in Developing Countries" |
| 03/00: | Diploma in Politics and Management, University of Konstanz. Diploma thesis: “Institutions, Institutional Quality and Decisions of Allocation”. Grade A (“Sehr gut”). |
| 10/94 – 03/00: | Undergraduate and graduate studies at the Department of Politics and Management (University of Konstanz), with special focus on international relations. |
| 10/92 – 10/94: | Undergraduate studies in literature and the arts. |
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