• International Institutions and Organizations
• Theories of International Relations
• Regional integration within and outside Europe
• Regionalism and external actors
• Nexus Security & Development
• Conflict Resources and War Economies
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Foreign and security policy

• Research in the sub-area ‘Political-economic consideration’ on ‘External Governance of Sector Coupling’ at Clean Circles “Iron as an energy source for a climate-neutral circular economy” (interdisciplinary cluster project)
• Theory-building and empirical research in the field of ‘International Institutions’, especially on regionalism in the Global South
• Emergence, Design, and Success of International/Regional Institutions
• EU-Africa Relations
• Research related to various policy fields, especially in the nexus of security & development

• German Political Science Association (DVPW)
• German-Namibian Society e.V.
• Alumni Network Sub-Saharan Africa (ANSA) e.V.
• Contact member of the DAAD Friends’ Association e.V. in Bamberg

Doctoral dissertation – Title: “Regionalism and External Influence: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the ambivalent Impact of the EU on Regional Integration” (Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Gehring (First Reviewer), Prof. Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Prof. Richard Münch)

• Scholarship student of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on several occasions, including for a program of study and research in Namibia
• 2007 – 2010: Scholarship student in the Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Markets and Social Spaces in Europe” at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg