I am a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Göttingen, where I have worked since 2018. I teach courses on gender and international relations, global issues, and international organizations (IOs). 

My research centers on the preferences, interests, and influence of individual actors—particularly bureaucrats—on international cooperation and institutional dynamics. I examine how IOs produce, broker, and contest knowledge within regime complexes, with a specific focus on international financial institutions, norm adoption and implementation, gender equality policies, and organizational memory. My recent work investigates benchmarking practices in climate finance, the impact of IMF programs on environmental policymaking, and the IOs' scientific concept adoption in their publications. 

I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, completed in 2016, with a dissertation on the program compliance impact of similarities between IMF officials and domestic econocrats. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Swedish Institute at Stockholm University (2018), during which I advanced my research on the implementation of gender equality norms in IOs. In 2018, I received the prestigious Philipp Schwarz Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. My teaching has been recognized with the Good Practice Teaching Examples Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences (2024/25) for my "Global Issues" seminar.

I hold memberships in the International Political Science Association (IPSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the International Studies Association (ISA). My recent publications include "Knowledge representation in global environmental assessments - Patterns among authors of the Global Environmental Outlook" (2025) and "Gender segregation in parliamentary committees of Turkey: Intermediary spaces of women's political representation".