Curriculum Vitae
Since 09/2025
President of EGPA
Since 02/2024
 Editor-in-Chief  "International Review of Administrative Sciences" (IRAS)
Since 09/2019
 Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Washington/USA
Since 06/2019 - 10/2023
 Holder of the Hedda Andersson Chair at Lund University, Sweden 
Since 09/2016
 Vice president for Western Europe at the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS)
Since 04/2013
 Chair of “Political Science, Public Administration and Organization II” at the University of Potsdam
10/2009 – 03/2013
 Chair of “Comparative Administrative Sciences, particularly Public Administration in Europe” at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer
Since 09/2011
 Vice-chair  of the National Regulatory Control Council, Berlin
Since 01/2011
Co-Chair of the Permanent Study Group V: "Regional and Local Government" der European Group for Public Administration (EGPA)
04/2009 – 09/2009
 Interim professor (W3) of “Domestic Policies and Public Administration” at the University of Konstanz
10/2008 – 04/2009
 Visiting professor of Administrative Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences, Chair of Administrative Sciences
12/2007 – 09/2008
 Visiting professor at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (as part of the successful Initiative for Excellence), Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences
10/2005 – 09/2008
 Research assistant, University of Potsdam
06/2003 – 12/2007
 Habilitation; award of the pro venia legendi for Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Potsdam
2004 – 2005
 Research fellow at the Maison des Scienes de l’Homme (MSH)
10/1999 – 06/2002
 Doctorate at the faculty of philosophy III at the Humboldt University Berlin
03/1996 – 03/2004
 Research assistant at the Humboldt University Berlin, Teaching focus: administrative sciences
09/1992 – 06/1993
 Lycée and collège in Nancy/France, position as a foreign language assistant
10/1990 – 06/1995
 Studies of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University Berlin