2009-2010
“Interdisciplinary peace research training course ‘Conflict and Peace’” at the Open University Hagen (distance learning university), Thesis on “The eighth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York 2010.”

2010
Fellow of the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg.

Since 2009
Lecturer at the History Institute of the University of Potsdam (see courses).

PhD Fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.

2009
Participation in the "Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research", Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Delegate of the German-French Youth Office at the "NATO Young Leaders Summit at the 60th Anniversary NATO Summit", Strasbourg, France.

2008-2009
Organization of the International conference “Dall'eurocomunismo alla socialdemocrazia” / “From Eurocommunism to social democracy” in the German-Italian Centre of European excellence Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy, 19th-21st April 2009. Financed by the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Rome.

Since 2008
PhD student at the Centre for Research on Contemporary History in Potsdam, Research group "Communism and society" (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lindenberger, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna).

2008
Participation in the Summer Course of the German Historical Institute Rome, Italy.

November 2006
Magister Artium in modern history (major), psychology (minor) and public law (minor), (Magister Artium is equivalent to master’s degree in modern history, Technical University of Berlin, Germany). Thesis (translation from German): “The Social Democratic Party of Germany in the parliamentary council 1948/1949. The SPD in the debate for the Basic Constitutional Law against the background of the first parliamentary elections 1949.”

July 2005
Diploma in Political science (Diplom-Politologe is equivalent to master’s degree in Political science, Free University of Berlin, Germany). Thesis (translation from German): “Intraparty change in the communist parties of France, Finland and Italy 1968-1990.”

Since 2005
Research assistant, Commission for Historical and Commemorative Affairs, Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) Headquarter, Berlin.

2004-2006 Seminar organizations for the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (topics: “The intelligence services of the Federal Republic of Germany”, “Political film in Germany from 1949 to 2000”).

2002-2006
Studies in modern history, political science, psychology and public law at Humboldt University in Berlin, Free University of Berlin, University of Potsdam and Technical University of Berlin.

2002
Internship at the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag).

2001-2006
Undergraduate Fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

1999-2002
Studies in political science, psychology and public law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.

1998-1999
Civilian service, Committee for disabled children (Arque), Mainz, Germany.

1998
Abitur (final secondary-school examinations).


Research Interests:
Historic Peace and Conflict Research / Cold War Studies
History and Theory of International Relations
Transnational History
Labour History
Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
History of Psychology


Membership in Professional Organizations (selection):
Association of Historians of Germany (VHD)
German Association for Political Science (DVPW)
German Atlantic Association


Talks (selection):
April 2010, “The relations between the SED and the Communist Parties of Western and Southern Europe. Action, actors and issues” at the conference “The relations between the SED and the Communist parties in Western and Southern Europe 1968 to 1989”. Organized by the Federal Foundation for the Reconciliation of the SED Dictatorship (Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur) and the Berlin Institute for Comparative European History at the Free University of Berlin, 09th-10th April 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

April 2009, “The United States and the security dimension of Eurocommunism” at the conference “Dall'eurocomunismo alla socialdemocrazia” / “From Eurocommunism to social democracy”. Organized by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Rome and the Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, 19th-21st April 2009 in the German-Italian Centre for European excellence Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italy.

February 2009, “Eurocommunism as a challenge for international Social Democracy. The cases of France and Italy” at the workshop “New Ways in Party- and Partysystem-Research”. Organized by the Institute for the Research on the German and European Law of Political Parties and Party Research, 06th-07th February 2009 in Dusseldorf, Germany.

December 2008, “François Mitterrand’s Strategy in Dealing with the French Communist Party (PCF)” at the conference “European Social Democracy in the 1980’s”. Organized by the Committee for Historical Affairs of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, 12th-13th December 2008 in Bonn, Germany.