| seit 2012 | Postdoc-Stipendiat, Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln |
| 2012 | Promotion, European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences; Dissertation “Competing Ideas: The Religious Foundations of the German and Italian Welfare States” |
| 2010 | Gastwissenschaftler, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität, Berlin |
| 2009 | Master of Research, European University Institute, Florence |
| 2008 | Diplom, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 2006 | Gastaufenthalt, DAAD, Graduate School, Department of Political Science, Duke University, Durham |
| 2004 | Gastaufenthalt, Erasmus Mundus, Department of Political Science, Università di Bologna |