Education and work experience

Since 10/2008

Ph.D. Fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences

09/2010 to 10/2010

Fellowship for Ph.D. Research Studies at the Centre d´études européennes (CEE) Paris of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

02/2007 to 12/2008

Research fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Research (CeS), University of Bremen

Research Project: "Social Self-administration in Conservative- Corporatist Welfare states"

08/2005 to 06/2007

Parliamentary Assistant to Paulette Guinchard, MP and Vice-president of  the French National Assembly

09/2004 to 08/2005

International Parliamentary Internship Program (IPP): Visiting student at IEP- Sciences po Paris and Internship in the French National Assembly

09/1999 to 08/2004

Diploma in "Language, Economy and Cultural Studies" at the University of Passau and in "International Relations" at the Institute for International Relations (ITIRI) Marc-Bloch University, Strasbourg

Diploma Thesis:

« L´impact des cultures sur les processus de communication dans la médiation »

(The Impact of Culture on the Communication Processes in Mediation Contexts)