Since 09/2018
Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, member of the research unit CERAPS (University of Lille)
Co-director of the MA programme “Strategy, Intelligence, Risk Management” (since 09/2019)
Director of the Franco-German double degree programme (09/2021-08/2024)
01/2023-07/2023
Research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Visiting researcher at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam
Research for habilitation project on the influences of collective memory discourses on German grand strategy
10/2015 – 09/2018
FNRS Research Fellow at the Tocqueville Chair of International Security Policy, University of Namur
Project on the impact of collective memory on political uses of history in discourses on contemporary conflict, using interviews and qualitative content analysis
10/2014 – 10/2015
Research Associate at King’s College London, Department of European & International Studies.
Participation in the international project INFOCORE (Informing Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution), funded by the EU’s 7th framework programme – Work Package 4 (NGOs as media actors, media sources, and providers of open-source intelligence)
04/2014 – 12/2014
Fernand Braudel Fellow, Institut de Recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM) and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris
Research project on discursive uses of historical references in media debates on current wars and interventions, using qualitative content analysis
07/2012 – 03/2014
Research Associate / Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, Department of International Relations and European Integration
Member of the interdisciplinary corpus-linguistic research project “Multiple Collective Identities in International Debates on Peace and War since the End of the Cold War”, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education.
07/2007 – 02/2008
Internship at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
01/2005 – 04/2005
Internship at the representation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon
05/2003 – 12/2004
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Chair of International Relations, University of Heidelberg
05/2003 – 12/2005
Conflict editor (Jordan, Lebanon) at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict ResearchÂ
Associate Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Lille, member of the research unit CERAPS (University of Lille)
Co-director of the MA programme “Strategy, Intelligence, Risk Management” (since 09/2019)
Director of the Franco-German double degree programme (09/2021-08/2024)
01/2023-07/2023
Research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Visiting researcher at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam
Research for habilitation project on the influences of collective memory discourses on German grand strategy
10/2015 – 09/2018
FNRS Research Fellow at the Tocqueville Chair of International Security Policy, University of Namur
Project on the impact of collective memory on political uses of history in discourses on contemporary conflict, using interviews and qualitative content analysis
10/2014 – 10/2015
Research Associate at King’s College London, Department of European & International Studies.
Participation in the international project INFOCORE (Informing Conflict Prevention, Response and Resolution), funded by the EU’s 7th framework programme – Work Package 4 (NGOs as media actors, media sources, and providers of open-source intelligence)
04/2014 – 12/2014
Fernand Braudel Fellow, Institut de Recherche stratégique de l’Ecole militaire (IRSEM) and Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH), Paris
Research project on discursive uses of historical references in media debates on current wars and interventions, using qualitative content analysis
07/2012 – 03/2014
Research Associate / Lecturer at the University of Stuttgart, Department of International Relations and European Integration
Member of the interdisciplinary corpus-linguistic research project “Multiple Collective Identities in International Debates on Peace and War since the End of the Cold War”, funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education.
07/2007 – 02/2008
Internship at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri)
01/2005 – 04/2005
Internship at the representation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon
05/2003 – 12/2004
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Chair of International Relations, University of Heidelberg
05/2003 – 12/2005
Conflict editor (Jordan, Lebanon) at the Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict ResearchÂ
09/2024 – 06/2025
Sciences Po Paris, France: Habilitation Ă diriger des recherches (French research degree required for the supervision of doctoral researchers)
Manuscript title: “The interaction between political uses of the past and collective memory: Making sense of German grand strategy between the 19th and the 21st centuries”
09/2008 – 06/2012
European University Institute, Italy: Completion of doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof Pascal Vennesson
Thesis title: “Using historical experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan” 09/2010 – 12/2010: Research stay in Germany, guest researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas without the State” (Free University of Berlin) 05/2010 – 08/2010: Research stay in the UK (independent research) June 2009: Postgraduate degree “Master of research”
09/2005 – 07/2008
Sciences Po Paris, France: Graduate studies in International Security July 2008: MA degree “Master International Affairs – International Security” July 2006: Certificate “diplĂ´me du programme international”Â
09/2002 – 07/2005
University of Heidelberg, Germany: Undergraduate studies in Political Science, Public Law, Philosophy July 2004: undergraduate certificate Â
Sciences Po Paris, France: Habilitation Ă diriger des recherches (French research degree required for the supervision of doctoral researchers)
Manuscript title: “The interaction between political uses of the past and collective memory: Making sense of German grand strategy between the 19th and the 21st centuries”
09/2008 – 06/2012
European University Institute, Italy: Completion of doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof Pascal Vennesson
Thesis title: “Using historical experience: The British Army and the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan” 09/2010 – 12/2010: Research stay in Germany, guest researcher at the Collaborative Research Center “Governance in Areas without the State” (Free University of Berlin) 05/2010 – 08/2010: Research stay in the UK (independent research) June 2009: Postgraduate degree “Master of research”
09/2005 – 07/2008
Sciences Po Paris, France: Graduate studies in International Security July 2008: MA degree “Master International Affairs – International Security” July 2006: Certificate “diplĂ´me du programme international”Â
09/2002 – 07/2005
University of Heidelberg, Germany: Undergraduate studies in Political Science, Public Law, Philosophy July 2004: undergraduate certificate Â