Biography
Professional positions and stations
2023
Reader at Technical University of Darmstadt
Senior Research Fellow, Point Alpha Research Institute, Geisa
2022 - 2023
Science transfer project "Moralization, Emotionalization, Polarization. A civic science real laboratory for experts of everyday life". Funded by Volkswagen Foundation
Reader & Researcher, Kopernikus-Project ARIADNE and at Chair for Political Theory, Institute for Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt
2021 - 2022
Research project „True Hate. Disciplining Emotions and Political Learning“. Volkswagen Foundation
2021
Habilitation in Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt.
Substitute Professor (W3), Chair for Political Science, PH Heidelberg.
2018
Substitute Professor (W2), Chair for Political Theory & History of Ideas, University of Trier
2014 - 2020
Research associate and senior lecturer, Institute of Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt
2013 - 2014
Post-doc scholarship, Heisenberg-Chair Europe and Modernity, University of Hamburg
2013
PhD in Political Science, University of Hamburg
2011 - 2012
PhD Scholarship, University of Hamburg
2008 - 2011
Research associate and lecturer, Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg
2008 - 2009
Research assistant in Political Theory, Helmut-Schmidt-University of the Armed Forces, Hamburg
2001 - 2008
MA in Political Science, Sociology, and Philosophy, University of Hamburg
Commitment and memberships in professional associations
- German Association for Political Science (DVPW)
- German Society for Political Science (DGfP)
- Co-Speaker DVPW Populism Research Group
- European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
- External Editiorial Board at Soziopolis
Peer review for scientific journals and foundations (selection)
Global Constitutionalism, Leviathan, Constellations, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Momentum Quarterly, Social Movement Studies, Energy Research & Social Science, Journal of International Relations and Development, Futures: For the Interdisciplinary Study of Futures, Anticipation, and Foresight, European Journal of Political Theory, Social Theory and Practice, Transportation Research, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Democratic Theory, Thyssen-Stiftung.
Research projects
2022 - 2023
Science transfer project "Moralization, Emotionalization, Polarization. A civic science real laboratory for experts of everyday life". Funded by VolkswagenStiftung. [With Olaf Jann].
2021-2022
True hate. Disciplining Emotions and Political Learning. Funded by VolkswagenStiftung. [With Olaf Jann].
Research stays / teaching stays
2019
Tongji University of Shanghai (2-4/2019, Guest lecturer and researcher).
University of Stirling, Schottland (2/2019, ERASMUS+ Guest lecturer).
2018
University of Ottawa, Kanada (10/2018, Guestresearcher).
2016
Tongji University of Shanghai (2-4/2016, Guest researcher and lecturer).
Scholarships
2024
Nietzsche-Fellowship, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
2023
Senior Research Fellowship, Point Alpha Research Institut Geisa
2013
Post-doc scholarship, Heisenberg Chair Europa and Modernity, University of Hamburg
2011
PhD scholarship, University of Hamburg