Curriculum Vitae

Education

Since 2022 Habilitation candidate with the cumulative project "Contestation in Global Economic Governance by Actors from the Global South"
Dissertation "India's Africa Policy – The Economisation and Modi-fication of a Millennia-Old Relationship" accepted (summa cum laude) by the Faculty of Human Sciences at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, defended on 31 October 2019 (summa cum laude).

The dissertation was awarded the Culture Award Bavaria 2020 (Kulturpreis Bayern) and the Prize of the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science (Unterfränkische Gedenkjahrstiftung für Wissenschaft) and the University of Würzburg 2020.
Studies of Political Science, Sociology and Public Law, University of Würzburg, Magister Artium/Master of Arts degree with a thesis on EU, Chinese and US Africa policy.
Studies of Law (state examination), University of Würzburg, degree of Diplom-Jurist (University).
Accompanying Studies of European Law, University of Würzburg, degree of European Jurist (Univ. Würzburg).
Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation.

Since 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher and Member of Faculty (since 2024 as Akademischer Rat a.Z.) at the Chair of International Relations and European Studies, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg
2011-2018: Member of Faculty and Researcher at the Professorship of European Studies and International Relations, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, University of Würzburg

2011: Consulting and training for CNH/FIAT enterprise software in France and Germany (in cooperation with Accenture).

2009-2011: Graduate assistant, Institute of Political and Social Science, University of Würzburg; teaching, scientific and research work.

2004-2009: Student assistant, Institute of Political and Social Science, University of Würzburg.

February-March 2024: Jawaharlal Nehru University and South Asian University, New Delhi
September-October 2019: Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mumbai und Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
September-October 2016: Visiting Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the "A New Passage to India" programme
September-October 2015: Visiting Scholar at Panjab University Chandigarh and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the "A New Passage to India" programme
September-November 2014: Visiting Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and guest stays and talks at Mohanlal Sukhadia University Udaipur, Mangalore University, Manipal University, University of Mumbai and Panjab University Chandigarh under the "A New Passage to India" programme
September-November 2013: Visiting Scholar at University of Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the "A New Passage to India" programme
March-April 2012: Visiting Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the "A New Passage to India" programme

Africa Review (Taylor & Francis)
Asia Europe Journal (Springer)
Asian Journal of African Studies (Institute of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
Insight on Africa (Sage)
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region (Taylor & Francis)
National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki, NCN), Poland
Panjab University Research Journal (Panjab University Chandigarh, India)