Curriculum vitae
Academic career
| since 12/2020 | Deputy director of the Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institute for Democracy Research at University of Leipzig (50% appointment in addition to a 50% appointment in Siegen) |
| 03/2020 | Award of best for dissertation 2018/2019 (Dirlmeier-Foundation at University of Siegen) |
| 07/2018 | Doctoral thesis defense (Summa cum laude) |
| 12/2016 - 01/2017 | Visiting researcher at the BMW Center for German and European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA |
| 09/2016 | Guest doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck-Insitute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
since 01/2014 | Researcher at the Chair for Comparative Cultural Sociology and Political Sociology in Europe (Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen) |
| 10/2012 - 03/2013 | Researcher at the Chair for Social Policy, Institute for Sociology, University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Georg Vobruba) |
| 06/2012 - 12/2012 | Researcher in the long-term research project „The center in turmoil. Right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany 2012“, University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler and PD Dr. Oliver Decker) |
| 08/2011 - 12/2011 | Student assistant at the Institue for Political Science, University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Astrid Lorenz) |
| 2009 - 2010 | Student exchange to the "Master of Arts Program in Middle East Studies" at Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev, Be'erSheba, Israel |
| 2008 and 2010 | Student assistant at the long-term research project "Right-wing Extremist Attitudes in Germany", University of Leipzig (Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler and PD Dr. Oliver Decker) |
| 2005 - 2011 | Magister Artium (M.A.) in Political Science (major), Sociology, and Philosophy, University of Leipzig |
Additional activities
| since 2010 educational work, consulting and speaker on right-wing extremism and related challenges for society | For example for the Goethe Institute Washington D.C., German Trade Union Congress, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Aspen Institute Berlin, U.S. Consulate General Leipzig, Parliament of Saxony, city councils of Berlin and Hannover, People's Colleges in Aachen, Cologne, Chemnitz, Landesinstitut für Schule und Medien Berlin-Brandenburg, Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Nordrhein-Westfalen, local schools and churches and many other institutions and organizations, including various media outlets (ARD, ZDF, France24, CBC, SpiegelTV, Deutschlandradio Kultur, MDR, etc.). |
| reviewer for |
Culture, Practice & Europeanization; European Journal of Political Research; European Societies (2x); Journal of Civil Society; Leviathan; Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie; Political Behavior; Politics & Policy; Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik; Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusfroschung; Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. |