Research Interests

European Integration
Asylum, Immigration and Border Studies
International Relations
Philosophy of Science

Curriculum Vitae

Since September 2016, Junior Research Fellow in Global Refugee Policies at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford
2/2015- : Research fellow at the Chair of International Politics (Prof. Dr. Arne Niemann) at the Department of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
09/2010-../2015: PhD dissertation, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS), University of Bremen, Germany
10/2013-12/2014: Research Associate, Project “Regime Change and the Mobility of Persons” (headed by Prof. Steffen Mau), Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 597, “Transformations of the State”, University of Bremen, Germany
01/2013-08/2013: Guest Researcher, Migration Studies Unit at the London School of Economics, UK
03/2012-04/2012: Guest Researcher, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik/German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Brussels Office, Belgium
02/2008-06/2009: Student Assistant, Center for European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
09/2006-04/2007: Licence franco-allemand, Studies in French-German Relations, Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle
05/2006-08/2010: Student Assistant, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn, Germany
01/2004-07/2010: M.A. in Political Science (Major), Public (International) Law (Minor), Romance Philology (Minor), Rheinische Friedrichs-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

Publications

Peer-reviewed/Editor-reviewed ISI-ranked journals

Published

(2015): Why EU asylum standards exceed the lowest common denominator: the role of regulatory expertise in EU decision-making, in: Journal of European Public Policy.DOI:10.1080/13501763.2015.1039565

(2015): The Global Mobility Divide: How Visa Policies Have Evolved over Time, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 8:1, pp. 1192-1213, mit Steffen Mau, Fabian Gülzau und Lena Laube.

(2014): Norms matter! The role of international norms in EU policies on asylum and immigration, in: European Journal of Migration and Law, 16: 1, pp. 45-68, with Christof Roos.

Other

(2014): Mapping the European Commission today: How the institution has changed or not over time, in: Journal of European Integration, 36: 4, pp. 427-433. [book review]

(2012): Obligatory Solidarity: Does the EU Need a Formula for Redistributing Asylum-Seekers Internally? Warsaw: PISM Bulletin 86/419, with Roderick Parkes.

(2008): Portugal, in: Lieb, Julia/Maurer, Andreas/Ordanza, Nicolai von (Eds.): In 27+X Schritten zur Reform. Die Ratifikation um Umsetzung des Lissaboner Vertrags, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Discussion Paper RG 1/4.

(2007): Die neue strategische Planung der europäischen Kohäsionspolitik in Theorie und Praxis, Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Discussion Paper RG 1/22, with Peter Becker.