Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012-2016
Ph.D. (Human Rights Centre and Department of Sociology), University of Essex

2011-2012
Semester abroad at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, University of Lund

2010-2012
LL.M. in International Laws and Honours Research Track (Faculty of Law), University of Maastricht

2007-2010
B.A. in Liberal Arts and Sciences (University College Maastricht), University of Maastricht

2008-2009
Year abroad and Certificat d’Études Politiques at the Institut d’Études Politiques Toulouse

Professional Activities

04/2018-05/2021
Research Fellow funded by Thyssen Foundation at Law & Anthropology Department, MPI for Social Anthropology

10/2017-04/2018
Researcher in the Programme "Culture and Foreign Affairs" at the Institute for Cultural Relations (ifa)

04/2014-04/2015
Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Judicial Studies and Social Research in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

02/2012-05/2012
Intern in the Programme Good Governance and Democratic Participation, German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) Lima, Peru

03/2010-07/2010
Intern in the Human Rights Department, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin

06/2009-07/2009
Intern in the COI Department and Law Office of the NGO exilio e.V. support of refugees and torture victims

02/2009-05/2009
Research assistance with Avocats Sans Frontières France

07/2008-08/2008
Intern with MPI for the Study of Societies

Teaching

09/2019-07/2020
Alfred Grosser Chair Sciences Po (Paris & Nancy)

Spring term 2019
Visiting Professor in "Principles of Constitutional Law" at the University of Torino

09/2012-03/2014 and 09/2016-02/2018
Teacher and course coordinator in "Education and Participation Programme" for Socially Disadvantaged Youth and Refugees

10/2015-06/2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Government and Sociology Departments, responsible for seminars "Crime, Law and Society", "The European Union: Institutions and Policies", "Democracy: Forms and Futures" and "Scientific Reasoning for the Social Sciences"

06/2014-06/2016
Thesis Supervision for degree dissertations in sociology, UAGRM Santa Cruz, Bolivia

04/2014-04/2015
Course coordinator at Goethe Institute, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, responsible for language teaching, conceptualizing and standardization of examinations, contributions to institutional accreditation audit process

Grants/Scholarships

04/2018-05/2021
Postdoctoral Project funding by Thyssen Foundation

10/2017-04/2018
Research grant funded by the Institute for Cultural Relations

02/2015
PhD fieldwork grant by Sociology Department Essex

02/2014
PhD travel grant by Essex Human Rights Centre

02/2007-09/2012
EU grant for B.A. and LL.M. studies, funded by Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science

09/2011-01/2012
Post graduate study abroad grant, funded by Law Faculty Maastricht

09/2008-01/2009
Erasmus grant

Membership of professional associations/Conference presentations

Invitations to speak at conferences, convening or chairing panels through membership of the following networks or conferences:
Human Rights Researchers’ Network/Human Rights Consortium
Doctoral Research Triangle of Human Rights Centres at Essex, Cambridge and LSE
Law and Society Association (LSA)
Collaborative Research Network International Law and Politics
Socio-Legal Studies Association UK (SLSA)
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Oxford (CSLS)
Institute for Global Law and Policy conference, Harvard
German-speaking Sociology of Law Associations
Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI), desiguALdades and TrAndeS, FU Berlin
Multidisciplinary Network on Indigenous Peoples (EMPI)
Essex Transitional Justice Network
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (ICA)
Working group Andean States as part of ADLAF
Human Rights under Presssure - Ethics, Law, and Politics (HR-UP)
Integrative Research Institute Law & Society
Nürnberger Menschenrechtszentrum
Vereinigung für Recht und Gesellschaft

Languages

German, English: mother tongue (or near mother tongue)
French, Spanish: fluent (C1-C2 CEFR)
Dutch, Swedish, Russian: basic (A2-B1 CEFR)

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