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/ Short Bio |
I am presently a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at the Greenwich Maritime Institute. Prior I was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen where I started my current research on the practices of counter-piracy. In 2010 I finnished my PhD in political science with the working title: "The New Spirit of Technocracy? Expertise, Peacebuilding and the UN", supervised by Friedrich Kratochwil at the Department of Social and Political Science at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Before joining the EUI, I was a Research Associate at the Institut für Sozialforschung at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where I was working in a research project on the 'micro politics of bioethical expertise'. As a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Frankfurt), I taught seminars on international relations theory, security theory and post-positivist policy studies. Prior I studied political science, sociology and law philosophy at the Universities of Frankfurt and Lund and received a Diplom (masters level) in political science from University of Frankfurt. My Publications have appeared in journals such as Contemporary Security Policy, Evidence & Policy, International Studies Perspectives, or Journal of International Relations and Development. |
| / Research Interests | My broad research interest is on the epistemic foundations of global order. Attempting to combine insights from international relations theory and theories of global governance with contemporary practice theory, new (French) pragmatism and science studies (notably post-ANT), I study processes and practices of ordering the globe. My empirical interest lies in understanding how the merging fields of security, peace and development become re-ordered by international organizations (UN, EU, AU), secretariats (e.g. the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations), expert commissions (e.g. the Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty) and academic research (e.g. the discipline of International Relations). My current research project investigates the securitization and governance of contemporary maritime piracy |
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/ Keywords |
Keywords that describe my areas of interest are: International Relations Theory / Sociology of (Social) Science / Practice Theory / Critical Security Studies / United Nations / Peace Operations / Security-Development Nexus / Piracy / Maritime Security / Science Policy Relations / Organization of Expertise |