Postdoctoral Thesis (Habilitation) and venia legendi awarded in the field of Political Science

2009: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Social and Political Science

PhD. in Political Science

2002: Free University Berlin, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science

Master in European Studies

1998-1999: Free University Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, European Centre for Comparative Government and Public Policy

Diploma in Political Science

1995-1998: Free University Berlin, Otto-Suhr Institute for Political Science

1994-1995: Technical University Lisbon, Department of Political Science Study of International Relations  

• 2024: Board Member of the Interdisciplinary International Graduate School of Science and Engineering, TUM (ongoing)
• 2023: Member of the Sustainability Award Selection Committee, supported by the Nobel Sustainability Trust Foundation (ongoing)
• 2023: Member of the Bavarian American Academy (ongoing)
• 2023: Chair of the Jury International Political Economy Graduate Student Award, International Studies Association
• 2021: Nominated for the Society for Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Mentor Award of International Studies Association
• 2021: Member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab
• 2020: Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance 2020-2022
• 2019: “Global Democracy in Decline? How Rising Authoritarianism Limits Democratic Control over International Institutions”: Most compelling paper has been published in Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations
• 2019: European Medal for Special Services to the Free State of Bavaria in Europe and the World
• 2019: Member of the Board of Directors, World Portuguese Network
• 2018: Counselor of Portugal in the World – World Portuguese Network/Portuguese Diaspora Council – under the patronage of the Portuguese President
• 2018-2024: President of the international jury of the John McCain Dissertation Award by the Munich Security Conference
• 2015: Fulbright Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• 2010: Heisenberg Fellowship, German Research Foundation (DFG)           
• 2009-2010: Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C. (declined)
• 2009: Visiting Fellowship, Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa
• 2007-2008: Jean Monnet Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence
• 2000-2002: PhD Fellowship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
• 1998: Prize Europe for the Diploma thesis of the German Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists

Memberships & Services to the Community

• 2021: Chair of the Jury International Political Economy Graduate Student Award, International Studies Association
• 2021: Member of the Jury International Political Economy Distinguished Scholar Award Committee, International Studies Association
• 2020: Member of the Jury International Political Economy Graduate Student Award, International Studies Association
• 2020: Member of the Advisory Board of the Online Magazine Politikon
• 2020: Member of the Advisory Board of the Swiss National Science Foundation Project: „Accountability of International Organizations”, Prof. Liliana Andonova,Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva
• 2020: Member of the external evaluation committee of study programs at Universidade Nova and Universidade Lusófona, Lissabon
• 2020: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Representative at the Hochschule für Politik, Technical University of Munich
• 2019: Member of the Advisory Board of the European Research Council Project: „The Decline and Death of International Organizations”, Prof. Hylke Dijkstra, Maastricht University
• 2018-2020: External Examiner at the London School of Economics (MSc International Political Economy; IR455 Economic diplomacy; IR453 Global Business in International Relations; IR499 Dissertation)
• 2018: President of the international jury of the John McCain Dissertation Award by the Munich Security Conference
• 2018: Advisory services for the European External Action Service
• 2017-2020: Head of several search committees at TUM – including Digital Governance, Global Security & Technology, Global Health, International Political Economy, and Politics of Finance
• 2017-2021: Vertrauensdozentin Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 2017: Member of the American Political Science Association
• 2017: Member of the external evaluation committee of the Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa for the Master program Politics of Security
• 2017: Chairwoman of the Jury of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize “Politics & Technology“
• 2017: Contribution to the acatech study “Germany’s Role in European Innovation Policy” for the Innovation Dialogue of the German Chancellor
• 2017: Member of the external evaluation committee of the Fundação para o Estudo e Desenvolvimento da Região de Aveiro for the Master program Security, Defense and Conflict Resolution
• 2016: Member of the external evaluation committee Master in European Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 2014-2016: Deputy Director of the Center for International Studies, Dresden University of Technology
• 2014: Editorial Board of Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
• 2013-2015: Head of the Department of Political Science, Dresden University of Technology
• 2012: Member of the European Union Studies Association
• 2010: Member of the International Doctoral Program of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) Council, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2008: Member of the International Studies Association
• 2008: Member of the committee of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes for the selection of graduate students
• 2008: Member of of several search committees of professorships in political science and external reviewer of several dissertation and habilitation committees (European University Institute, Humboldt University of Berlin, Dresden University of Technology, University of Salzburg, University of Leuven, University of Edinburg)
• 2005-2010: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Representative at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2000: Member of the German Association of Political Science