Education
2023 Habilitation (PD Dr.) in Political Science at the University of Economics and Business/Vienna on „Participatory Demands, Changing Subjectivities and Political Organization. How Social and Democratic Change interlink„
2015 Ph.D (Dr. disc. pol.), Georg-August-University Goettingen/Germany
2008 Magister Artium (Master’s Degree) in Political Science, Georg-August-University Goettingen/Germany
2006 – 2007 Studies of Political Science and Economics at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago/Chile
2002 – 2008 Studies of Political Science, Economics, and International Law at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen/Germany
Professional experience
since 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Public Policy of the Central European University in Vienna
2016 – 2023 Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
2015 – 2016 Assistant Professor Post-Doc at the Goettingen Institute of Democracy Research at the Georg-August-University Goettingen/Germany
2010 – 2015 Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate at the Goettingen Institute of Democracy Research at the Georg-August-University Goettingen/Germany
2008 – 2009 Research Assistant in the Working Group for Research on Political Parties and Culture at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen
2003 – 2008 Student Assistant in the Working Group for Research on Political Parties and Culture at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen
Membership and service to the academic community
2018 – 2019: Deputy Head of the Institute of Social Change and Sustainability (IGN) at WU Vienna
From 2022 Member of the scientific advisory committee to the Economic Forum of the German Social Democratic Party
From 2021 Convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization
From 2020 Member of the Next Left Focus Group of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies
From 2017 Member of the Steering Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization
From 2017 Member of the scientific advisory committee to the Renner Institute, Vienna
From 2016 Tutor and Vertrauensdozent of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
From 2016 Member of the Gesprächskreis Sozialwissenschaften, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
From 2010 Member of the editorial Board of INDES. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft (INDES. Journal for Politics and Society)
Reviewer for, inter alia,
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space; Social Movement Studies; Mobilization. An International Quarterly; Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft; Politische Vierteljahresschrift; Environmental Politics; Utilities Policy; Energies; Frontiers Energy Research; Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Social Studies; Swiss National Fonds