| since Oct. 2012 | Director at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), Paris |
| since Oct. 2012 | Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and Affiliated Faculty Member of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Cologne |
| 2008-2012 | Associate Dean for Research, Sciences Po, Paris |
| 2011-2012 | Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University |
| 2009-2012 | Head of Otto Hahn Junior Research Group funded by the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, and Sciences Po, Paris |
| since Oct. 2006 | Tenured Research Fellow, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris |
| since 2004 | Lecturer, Undergraduate and Graduate Programs and the Master of Public Affairs program, Sciences Po, Paris |
| 2002-2006 | Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne |
| 2004 | PhD in Political Science with bi-national supervision from Sciences Po, Paris, and University of Cologne |
| 2002-2003 | Stays as a visiting researcher at American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University and BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University (both in Washington, DC), and at European University Institute, Florence |
| 2000 | MA in International Relations, University of Chicago |
| 1999 | BA in Political Science, University of Chicago |