Leader of the junior research group (Nachwuchsgruppe) “Frozen and Unfrozen Conflicts” at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg

08/2014 – 05/2017

Senior researcher and lecturer (Akademische Mitarbeiterin, Habilitationsstelle), research and teaching position with the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, affiliated with the Chair for German Politics and Public Administration, Associated Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz (2015)

08/2013 – 06/2014

Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Law, Society, and Culture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN

08/2008 – 09/2014

Ph.D. in Law, Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin, dissertation on “The Internationalisation of Peace Agreements between State and Non-State Parties” (passed with summa cum laude)
Supervised by Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf, Director of the German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin, second supervisor Prof. Dr. iur. Heike Krieger, Freie Universität Berlin
Dissertation prize of the Faculty of Law, Freie Universität Berlin

04/2011 – 08/2013

Doctoral research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO), since 01/2017 Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, member of the research group “Legal Culture in 20^th Century East Central Europe”

07/2011 – 07/2012

Fellow of the SIAS (Some Institutes of Advanced Study) Summer Institute 2011-2012 “Regulating the World Society: Law, Governance and the Quest for Global Justice,” convened by Prof. Alfred C. Aman, Jr. (Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN) & Prof. Peer Zumbansen (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto; now King’s College London)

01/2011 – 03/2011

Doctoral research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Recht als Kultur“ / Centre for Advanced Study “Law as Culture,” Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

09/2008 – 06/2010

Doctoral research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), DFG collaborative inter-disciplinary research centre (Sonderforschungsbereich 700) “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood,” Freie Universität Berlin

01/2010 – 06/2010

Project: “International Law as a Standard for Inter- and Transnational Governance Institutions in Areas of Limited Statehood,” principal investigator Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf

09/2008 – 12/2009

Project: “Standards of Public International Law for Governance in Weak and Failing States,” principal investigator Prof. Dr. iur. Beate Rudolf

08/2007 – 06/2008

Regional coordinator and lecturer with the Lectureship Programme for Eastern Europe and China (now Lectureship Programme for Eastern Europe and Asia) at the Chair of European and International Law, Yerevan State University, Republic of Armenia, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation (work place based in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia)

10/2001 – 08/2007

Magistra Artium in East European Studies (Politics and Law), European and Public International Law, and Journalism, Freie Universität Berlin

03/2016 – 05/2016

Visiting professor, Legal Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest

06/2010 – 12/2010

Visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law,

04/2009 – 07/2009

University of Cambridge

03/2010 – 04/2010

Short stay as visiting doctoral researcher at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Londonderry