| 1997-1998 | Cours de la Langue et Civilisation Française, Université Paris I (Sorbonne), Paris, France, Diplôme de la Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne (Result: mention bien) and Certificat du Secrétariat de la Chambre de Commerce de Paris |
| 1988-1997 | A-levels (Abitur), Evangelisches Gymnasium, Siegen, Overall Result: 1,9 |
| 1998-2003 | Master of Arts in Political Science, Public Law and Sociology, Bonn University Master s thesis: Between realistic interests and moral obligation: German Foreign Policy |
| 2001-2001 | Student Assistant, Center for European Integration Studies (Assistant to Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt), Bonn University |
| 2002-2002 | Erasmus exchange semester at Venice International University (VIU) and Università Ca Foscari, Venice, Italy |
| 2007-2007 | Research stay at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany DAAD short-term research grand, M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, German and Jewish Intellectual Émigré Collection |
| 2003-2008 | Research Assistant and Lecturer, Chair of political science and contemporary history (Prof. Dr. Christian Hacke), Bonn University |
| 2003-2009 | PhD in Political Science, Bonn University, Doctoral thesis: John H. Herz An Intellectual Biography , Overall result: Summa Cum Laude |
| 2008-2010 | Research Assistant and Lecturer, Program for North American studies (Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke), Bonn University |
| 2010 | Lecturer, Department of International Relations (Prof. Dr. Beate Neuss), Chemnitz Technical University |
| 2010-2011 | Program Officer, Future Forum Berlin, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) |
| Associate, Project team: Strategic Thinking , Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Berlin |
| 2011-2012 | Advisor on disarmament, arms control, and non-proliferation at the German Bundestag, Office of Roderich Kiesewetter, Member of the German Bundestag, German Bundestag, Berlin |
| 2013-2014 | Acting Head of Program, Future Forum Berlin |
| 2013-2015 | Program Officer, Future Forum Berlin, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) |
| since 2015 | Head of Program, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) |
