01/2011: Dissertation Defense

10/2006- 01/2011: PhD Fellow, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences

09-10/2008: Visiting Fellow, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome

10/2007-03/2008: Visiting Fellow, Graduate School for Social, Economic and Political Sciences, Milan

12/2005: Diploma in Political Sciences, University of Marburg

01/2003-02/2004: Studies in Political Sciences, University of Bologna

10/2000-12/2005: Studies in Political Sciences/Sociology/Contemporary History, University of Marburg

10/2006- present: PhD scholarship, BIGSSS Bremen

09-10/2008: Research stipend, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

11/2004-12/2004: Research stipend, German Historical Institute, Rome 

04/2002-12/2005: Student scholarship, German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung)