Academic Positions

Since 2023
Walter Benjamin Fellow, German Research Foundation, Institute of Media Studies (Prof. Martina Thiele), University of Tübingen, Germany

2021 – 2022
Visiting Associate Professor (Fall semester), Institute for Journalism and Communications Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany

2020 – 2021
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), Department of Media and Communication, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

2018 – 2020
Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), Department of Media and Communication, Research Unit Michael Meyen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

2013 – 2014
Research assistant (Angharad N. Valdivia), Institute Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

2012 – 2014
Research assistant (Robert McChesney), Department of Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

2012 – 2014
Tutor (voluntary), Education for Justice Project (Higher Education in Prison), UIUC and the Danville Correctional Center, Illinois, USA
Tutoring students incarcerated at the medium security prison of Danville Correctional Center

2009 – 2013
Teaching assistant, Institute Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

2008
Editor, Political Science Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands

2003 – 2006
Student assistant, Erfurt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany
Assistance to faculty members, administration and research work, organization of conferences

2004 – 2006
Research assistant, Environmental Policy Research Center, Free University Berlin, Germany
Research assistant, Chair of Comparative Religion and Islam Sciences, University of Erfurt, Germany
Project assistant, Chair of Comparative Government, University of Erfurt, Germany

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