Assistant Professor (external) at the ESCP Berlin and at the Potsdam University and publicist specialized in the international relations with a focus on European and Russian Contemporary History. Frequent contributor to the German National Public Radio (Deutschlandfunk) and to German and International leading newspapers and Journals (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, FAZ, SPIEGEL, New York Times).

Professional Experience: Since 2/2015 External Assistant Prof. at ESCP Berlin EMEM Lectures on Energy Security and BSc Course on Global History in Berlin and Paris and Assistant Prof. at Potsdam University ; Seminars and Lectures on Contemporary Russian History ; Visiting Fellow at Jacobs-University, Bremen ; 3-years project on “Smart mobility” in Indian megacities with the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore; Seminars on International Energy Security Policy and Indian.

Foreign and Security Policy: 1/2009 – 7/2009 Expert of the EU-Enquiry Commission on the Conflict of Georgia ; 9 - 12/2008 Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Diego ; Seminar on International Energy Security ; 3/2005 – 8/2008 Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund  

After studying law, history and political science at the universities of Freiburg, Cologne, Bonn and London (LSE), passed First State Examination in Law in 1986. Second State Examination in Law in 1989. Defended doctoral thesis in Constitutional Law and History in 1993. Publications Various publications in scientific books, journals and frequent writer in European and U.S. daylies (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, New York Times, “Der Spiegel” (online),“The National Interest”, interviews and contributions in German National Radio, NPR, BBC, Radio Free Europe and other European Radio Stations.