2020-2021

Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (IAS)

since 2020

Lise Meitner Research Group Leader "China in the Golbal System of Science" at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) Berlin

2018-2019

Wigeland guest professor at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago (full academic year)

2014-2019

Associate professor in Modern Chinese Society and Politics, University of Oslo; selected for the Faculty of Humanities’ career development and research leadership program (2016)

2013-2014

Co-director of the research group “domestic politics” at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics), Berlin

2013

Postdoctoral research fellow, Department for the Comparative Research on Democracies (Rudolf Stichweh) at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn

2013

Ph.D. (Dr. Phil.) in China studies; dissertation award of the University of Tübingen

2011-2012

Doctoral Fellowship (grant), Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2008-2013

Research fellow and junior lecturer at the Chair of Greater China Studies (Gunter Schubert), Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (AOI), University of Tübingen

2007-2008

Greater China assistant of the CEO, RSBK GmbH, Frankfurt/Main

2006-2007

Hermann Hesse stipend for a year of studies at Renmin University of China, Beijing

2001-2007

M.A. in China studies/sinology (1. major) and Political science/international relations (2. major), University of Tübingen and Peking University