About

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for International Politics and Conflict Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. As a scholar of diplomacy and foreign policy, I am particularly interested in feminist foreign policy; diplomacy and gender, race, and class; and knowledge production in and on foreign policy.

My main empirical focus is on Germany and the German Federal Foreign Office. I am one of the very few ethnographers to have done participant observation in the Ministry, providing me with unique, in-depth insight into its inner workings.

As part of the KNOWPRO project, I study knowledge production on German peace and security policy along with five colleagues at the Universities of Erfurt, Bremen, and Kiel. The project is fully funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. From April 2026 onwards, I will act as a Co-Principal Investigator for this research project.

I’m also a member of the Center for Political Practices and Orders (C2PO) at the University of Erfurt and the GenDip network for research on gender and diplomacy, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Outside of academia, I contribute to the Programme for Gender and International Politics at the Polis180 think tank for Foreign and European Policy. As part of my work and as an academic expert, I have provided expertise on feminist foreign policy and the Women, Peace and Security agenda to the German government.

I’m an experienced public speaker and teacher, offering talks, workshops, seminars, and lectures on my research topics. I have worked with both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

In March 2025, I completed my PhD at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. In 2024, I was elected as an Associate of King’s College London.

In addition to my PhD, I hold a first-class honours B.A. in International Relations from the University of Erfurt, Germany, and an M.A. in Conflict, Security and Development (Distinction) from King’s College London, UK.

Prior to my PhD, I was Personal Advisor to the State Secretary of a German State Chancellery.

I’m currently based in Berlin.