since Jan. 2026
Research associate at ZZF Potsdam in Dep. I
2025
Visiting Fellow at the ZZF in the Department I Communism and Society with a Sacharow-Scholarship
Oct. - Dec. 2024
Associated researcher at the ZZF Potsdam in Dep. I
2018 - Sept. 2024
DFG project “The Soviet State Security’s Political and Power Resources. KGB Structures, Practices and Methods in the Last Decade of the Soviet Union” at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
since 2014
Senior Research Fellow / Associate Researcher at the Socio-Political Department, Analytical Centre of Yuri Levada (Levada Centre), Moscow
April to July 2017
Visiting researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
April to September 2016
Visiting scholar at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
June 2012 to December 2013
Visiting researcher at the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED-Dictatorship in Berlin (with a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
January to June 2008
Visiting researcher at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, M.A.
2011 - 2012
Research project coordinator at the Levada Centre and the International Society “Memorial”, Moscow
2006 - 2010
Ph.D., Political Systems and Institutional Change
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
2004 - 2005
M.A., Political Science
University of Manchester / Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
