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Academic qualifications

2016 

Habilitation

Title of professorial thesis:

“Debating Europe in National Parliaments. Discursive Justification and Political Polarization in Comparative Perspective”

FB 03, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Academic supervisors:

Prof. Brigitte Geissel (University Frankfurt)

Prof. Gunther Hellmann (University Frankfurt) 

Prof. Arthur Benz (University Darmstadt)

Venia Legendi in Political Science

2005

Dissertation (Dr. disc.pol.)

Title of doctoral thesis:

“Soziales Europa und demokratische Legitimität. Die Institutionalisierung der EU-Sozialpolitik aus demokratietheoretischer Perspektive”

Faculty for Social Sciences, University Göttingen, Germany

Languages

German: Native Language

English: full proficiency, spoken and written

French: good proficiency, spoken and written

Spanish: good proficiency spoken, basic proficiency written

Dutch: basic proficiency, spoken and written