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 (I?W) 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