I am a researcher at the intersection of peace and conflict studies and international politics. I am broadly interested in (conflictive) internationalised processes of change, (transitional) justice, and the production and circulation of knowledge and ideas. I mostly work with interpretive research approaches and collect original data through qualitative methods, such as interviews and (participant) observation.

I am currently heading the research group ‘Transnational Conflicts’ at the INTERACT Center for Interdisciplinary Peace and Conflict Research at Freie Universität Berlin and am one of the co-speakers of the working group ‘Violent Orders’ of the German Political Science Association. Before joining the FU, I was A.SK Social Science Fellow in the Global Governance Unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and a Research Associate at the Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg.

My academic work informs policy advice for federal ministries, political foundations and development agencies, and I am occasionally interviewed for print, online or broadcast media. My writing for the broader public, in English and German, has for example been published in The Washington Post‘s Monkey Cage or Internationale Politik.

As a doctoral researcher, I worked in the research network Re-Configurations: History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Marburg, which was funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. Some results of the network’s research are published open access. My doctoral dissertation on the Tunisian transitional justice process won the 2019 dissertation award of the German Middle East Studies Association.

I hold an MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics and a BA in European Studies from the University of Bremen. During my bachelor’s, I spent a semester at Sciences Po Lille.