I am a research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden). Prior to joining TU Dresden, I held positions at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), King’s College London (KCL), the University of Helsinki, Uppsala University, the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, and Universität Hamburg. At KCL, I served as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and was the principal investigator in a project funded by the European Commission under the H2020 MSCA program.

My research spans two key programs. The first program operates at the intersection of European studies, International Relations (IR), and comparative politics. It examines the EU’s external governance, democracy and autocracy, democratic theory, and political regimes within the EU's Eastern Neighbourhood. The second program sits at the crossroads of IR and behavioral economics, drawing on insights from prospect theory to analyze competing regional integration processes in Europe and Eurasia.

I hold a PhD in political science from HU Berlin (2014) and am the author of Regime Dynamics in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood: EU Democracy Promotion, International Influences, and Domestic Contexts (2017, New York: Palgrave Macmillan).