• since Oct. 2011: lecturer, University of Oxford
  

• 2010-2011: lecturer, University of Heidelberg

• 2008-2009: research fellow, URGE

• 2005-2009: Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Milan
• dissertation: "Politics of Segmentation: Party Competition and Unemployment Compensation in Italy and Germany"
• supervisor: Maurizio Ferrera
  

• 1998-2004: studied Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy (Magister Artium, M.A.)
  at Universities of Tübingen (D), Essex (GB), and Potsdam (D)
  

Past research affiliations:

• Aug.-Dec. 2007: visiting researcher, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

• Jan.-June 2007: visiting grad student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science
  

• 1999/2000: research assistant to Prof. Josef Schmid, University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science
  

Teaching experience:

• winter semester 2010/11: 'Political Parties and Policy-Making', University of Heidelberg

• winter semester 2010/11: 'Comparative Social Policy', University of Heidelberg

• summer semester 2010: 'The German Party System in Historical Perspective', University of Heidelberg

• summer semester 2010: 'Theories of the Welfare State', University of Heidelberg
  

• spring term 2009 and 2010: 'Politics and Welfare', University of Milan
  

Workshops attended:

• June 2008: ESPAnet PhD workshop "The Politics of Recalibration: Welfare Reforms in the Wider Europe", Bologna-Forlí.
  

• Oct. 2007: 2nd joint ESPAnet/RECWOWE PhD workshop “Development of Work and Welfare Reform”, Hamburg
  

• Aug. 2006: ESPAnet summer school “European Comparative Social Policy”, Aalborg (DK)

• July 2006: summer school on “Globalization and Welfare State” and “Political Economy of Trade”, Barcelona Institute of International Studies
  

Practical experience:

• Aug.-Sept. 2005: internship and freelance, ILO, Geneva

• Jan. 2005: internship at newspaper `Tagesspiegel´, Berlin, afterwards various freelance articles

• Aug.-Sept. 2001: internship, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, India

Languages: German, English, Italian, some French