Deputy Head of Policy and Analysis, Munich Security Conference Foundation.

PhD in Bonn (Topic: Afghanistan’s geostrategic significance for America, continuity and change from 1979-2008).

Research stay at the University of Texas, Austin.

Studies (Magister Artium) in Political Science, Economics and Modern History at Bonn University and the Universidad Léon, Spain.

Co-founder and member of the editorial team of the security policy journal «International Magazine for Security», including various publications, interviews and background discussions.

2014-2018 Political Advisor, Dr. Andreas Nick, MP, Foreign Affairs Committee, Digital Agenda Committee of the German Bundestag.

Areas of expertise: security policy, geopolitics, Afghanistan, US-American foreign policy, transatlantic relations, Cyber Security.