2019 - present
Chair Professor of International History and Peace and Conflict Studies (19th and 20th Centuries), University of Cologne, Germany

October 2018 - July 2019
Professor of Modern History at the History Department of the LMU Munich, Germany (sabbatical replacement for Prof. Martin Geyer)

March 2018
Visiting Professor at the Centre d’Histoire, Sciences Po Paris, France

March 2017 – October 2018
Privatdozent at the LMU Munich, Germa

Februar 2017
Habiltation in Modern History at the LMU Munich, Germany

Since July 2014
Academy Leader (together with Prof. Johannes Paulmann and Prof. Andrew Thompson) of the Global Humanitarianism Research Academy (GHRA) in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva

November 2012 – September 2018
Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz (IEG), Germany

September 2008 – March 2009
Lecturer at the Department of History at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

April 2008 – March 2009
Postdoc Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

July 2007
Ph.D. Degree in Modern History at the LMU Munich, Germany

• International and European History
• History of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Decolonization
• History of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and International Humanitarian Law (19th and 20th centuries)
• History of International Organizations, Global Governance and Human Security (19th and 20th centuries)

Grant for the “Global Humanitarianism Research Academy” (GHRA), 2015 to 2019 (in collaboration with Prof. Johannes Paulmann and Prof. Andrew Thompson) and in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London, and the International Committee of the Red Cross

Leverhulme-Turst Grant for the international network “Rights, Duties and the Politics of Obligation: Socioeconomic Rights in History”, 2015 to 2018 (in collaboration with the Uni- versity of Warwick, Sciences Po Paris, Harvard University, University of Lausanne, Max- Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin)

German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant for the research project “In the Cause of Humanity”, 2009 to 2012 (in collaboration with Prof. Martin H. Geyer)