Education and Training
2010-2011 Management Certificate “Systemic Leadership in institutions with public responsibilities” (Postgraduate Center, University of Vienna)
2010 Habilitation thesis on “European Security Governance and the Rule of Law” Habilitation at the University of Vienna (Priv.-Doz.)
Venia: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, European Law
2004 European University Institute Florence (EUI): participation in the XVth Session of the Academy of European Law on Human Rights Law
2003-2005 Training as an e-learning expert (use of e-learning for university education)
2000-2002 Doctoral Studies in Legal Science at the University of Vienna ( “Dr. iuris”)
Thesis: “Advisory Boards in Federal Administration”
1996-2000 Studies of Law at the University of Vienna, graduation (“Mag. iuris”)
Professional Experience
2018 – Vice Dean of research at the faculty of law, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
2018-2020 Visiting Fellow, Durham Law School (UK)
2017- Professor at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna
2014-2016 Research Fellow, Durham Law School (UK)
2013-2016 Research Chair, Institute of Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre of Social Sciences
2013 Parental leave
2012-2017 Independent Reseacher in Vienna
2012 DAAD-Grant: Institute of European Studies, Hamburg
2004-2012 Postdoctoral research fellow and senior lecturer at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna (Prof. Bernd-Christian Funk)
2011 Research Project “The role of constitutional comparison in constitution-making processes in central and eastern Europe”, Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Research Grant of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG)
2009-2010 Parental leave
2008 Humboldt-Experienced Researcher
Max-Planck Institute of International and Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg, Germany
2007-2008 Faculty Visitor, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law
Visiting-Scholarship-Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
2002-2003 Legal department of the Austrian road safety board
2000-2004 Research assistant and lecturer at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna (Prof. Bernd-Christian Funk)
Awards, Research Grants, etc
2013: International Travel Grant – Monash University Melbourne (Australia)
2013: Lehren Lecturer for international impulse “Lehren. The Alliance for Academic Teaching” – Invitation of the University of Hamburg, Project Grant “Enabling Spaces. Space in Legal Education”
2012: Research Grant of the German Exchange Service (DAAD), Institute of European Studies, Hamburg “Possibilities and Limits of the European Human Rights Protection”
2010: Research Grant of the Austrian Research Association (ÖFG) for a half-year research stay at CEU, Budapest
2008: Life-Long-Learning Award for the organization of the NICLAS summer school as best ERAMUS project in Austria 2008
2008: Scholarship by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
2008: Research prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for experienced researchers
2007: Award of the Theodor-Körner Fund with regard to the Habilitation project
2007: Research Award of the “Juristischen Blätter”