Professional career

• Since 04/2022: Full professor and chairholder (W3) (1.0) of Political science with a specialisation in climate politics, Centre for Climate Resilience and Institute of Social Sciences, University of Augsburg, Germany
• 10/2020 - 03/2022: Visiting lecturer (1.0) in International Relations at Hamburg University, Germany
• 08/2019 - 09/2020: Senior Researcher (0.8), Institute of Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) in Berlin, Germany
• 04/2017- 03/2022: Adjunct Lecturer (Privatdozent) at Hamburg University, Germany
• 04/2016 - 06/2019: Assistant Professor Environmental Governance (0.8), Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
• 04/2015 - 03/2016: Visiting Professor (on a Humboldt scholarship) at the Department of Political Science and Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden
• 05/2013 - 03/2015: Interims Professor (W3) (1.0) in International Politics, Distance Teaching University in Hagen, Germany
• 10/2012 - 03/2013: Interims Professor (W2) (1.0) in International Relations and European Politics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
• 04/2012 - 09/2012: Interims Professor (W1) (1.0) for Global Governance, Hamburg University
• 15/11/2009 - 31/03/2012: Senior researcher (1.0), DFG-funded Cluster of excellence “Integrated Climate Systems Analysis and Prediction” (CliSAP), Hamburg University
• 17/05/2008 - 14/11/2009 and 01/09/2002 - 04/04/2007: Assistant Professor in International Relations (C1), (0.75-1.0), Hamburg University
• 02/07/2001 - 06/08/2002: Senior Research Fellow (1.0), Secretariat of the German Advisory Council for Global Environmental Change (WBGU), Berlin, Germany
• 08/08/2000 - 30/06/2001: Postdoctoral researcher (0.5), Free University of Berlin, German

Qualifications

• 2016 Habilitation in Political Science, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Hamburg, Germany, cumulative thesis title ‚Climate change as a security issue: Analysing the discourse and its policy implications‘
• 2000 Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Science, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, published under the title ‘Evaluating stakeholder participation in the transition to sustainable development: Methodology, case studies, policy implications’
• 1995 Pre-Diploma (Vordiplom) in Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Germany