Research groups
Areas of responsibility
Research interest
European Studies: Political System and International Relations of the European Union (EU), Regionalism and Regionalisation
International Relations: International Organizations, Global Development and Governance, Foreign Policy Analysis
Graduate supervision
I am most interested in supervising research that focuses on the European Union (EU), international relations and organisations as well as instances of regional integration (e.g. the African Union) and, more generally, questions of global governance. I am particularly interested in various aspects of the EU's external action, such as the impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and EU development policy, as well as the role of EU macro-regional strategies in territtorial cooperation.
Previous positions
06/08 - 12/09 Senior Researcher, German Development Institute, Bonn (Germany)
08/04 - 06/08 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Institute of European Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
09/99 - 08/04 Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Jena (Germany)