I am a Professor of European Politics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. My research focuses on the institutional and political development of the European Union and European politics more broadly. I am particularly interested in explaining fundamental and long-term developments, including the parliamentarization and differentiated integration of the EU as well as the rise of, and the EU’s struggle with, democratic backsliding, autocratization, and illiberal actors among the member states and in its neighborhood. Many of my projects are linked by an analytical interest in the influence of parliaments and parliamentary actors, notably parties, on EU politics and a normative concern for strengthening the democratic quality and legitimacy of European integration.
My research has, for example, examined the following research questions:
PhD in Political Science, 2013
ETH Zurich
MA in Political Science, 2010
ETH Zurich
MA in Research Methods in Politics, 2008
University of Sheffield
BA in European Studies, 2007
Maastricht University