| since May 2012 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| Aug.-Dec. 2010 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2008-2012 | Doctoral Researcher, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| June-Sept. 2008 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2003-2004 | Erasmus/Socrates Fellow at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Lyon, France |
| 2007 | Diplom (MA equivalent) in political science, Frankfurt University, Frankfurt am Main |
| 2000-2007 | Studied political science, economics, law, sociology and social psychology at Frankfurt University, Frankfurt am Main |