Research and Teaching Areas

• Anti-democratic positions and attitudes as challenges for political education
• Learning democracy
• Research on the teaching profession
• Digitality and political education

Curriculum Vitae

April 2019
Professor of Political Science III – Political Education and Didactics of Social Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2015–2018
Interim Professor of Political Science III – Political Education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Project Leader: Strong Teachers – Strong Students. Model project aimed at strengthening teachers’ professional pedagogical competencies in addressing anti-democratic beliefs in vocational schools, at TU Dresden

2013
Doctorate (PhD) from Philipps-Universität Marburg

Dissertation: Solange die sich anständig benehmen. Subjektive Theorien und Handlungsstrategien sächsischer Politiklehrerinnen und -lehrer zum Phänomen rechtsextremer Jugendkultur
[As Long as They Behave Properly: Subjective Theories and Strategies of Saxon Political Education Teachers in Dealing with Right-Wing Extremist Youth Culture]

2009–2011
Postgraduate studies in supervision and counselling at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Kiel University

2006–2015
Research Associate at the Chair of Didactics of Political Education/Social Studies, TU Dresden

2000–2006
Teacher training studies at TU Dresden; First State Examination for teaching Social Studies and History

Advisory Activities and Academic Board Memberships

• Member of the Steering Committee of the “Political Science and Political Education” section of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) (until 2021)
• Advisory and expert activities, including for the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)
• Early-Career Representative on the Executive Committee of the German Association for Civic Education (GPJE), 2010–2012

Teaching and Educational Practice

I have gained teaching and educational experience in a variety of contexts. Some examples include:

• In schools: as a teacher at the Neue Produktionsschule Moritzburg in Saxony, where I taught History and Social Studies to adolescents and young adults.
• In non-formal education: as a long-standing volunteer workshop trainer for young adults with JFC Deutschland.
• In higher education: for example, as co-project leader of a university teaching project on research-based learning, together with staff and students from the political science departments at TU Dresden, Leipzig University, and Chemnitz University of Technology.
• In adult education: through a wide range of workshops with educators and practitioners in non-formal civic education, both nationally and internationally.