Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Since 2014: Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair for EU Integration Studies, University of Innsbruck
Since 2013: Professor for Political Science and European Integration, University of Innsbruck
Since 2011: Member of the Advisory Board of the Observatory of Parliaments after the Lisbon Treaty (OPAL)
Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2011: European Parliament, Secretariate of the Committee on International Trade (INTA)
2007: Media Award of the International Press Corps in Germany
2003: Science Award of the German Bundestag
Project Director for I.PA.COO.-50 - Fifty Years of Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation
2007/2008: Detached National Expert, European Parliament, Secretariat of the Committee for International Trade
2002-2004: Adviser to the European Constitutional Convention
Treasurer, Arbeitskreis Europäische Integration (German ECSA member)
Member of the Academic Board, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin
2000-2002: Project Director, Trans European Policy Studies Association, Brussels
1997-2002: University of Cologne, Jean Monnet Chair for Political Science
1996-1997: Task Force 'Intergovernmental Conference' of the European Parliament
1994-1997: Institut für Europäische Politik (Institute for European Politics), Bonn
British Separatism after Cameron's EU Veto
Consequences and Dangers of the Federal Constitutional Court Judgment for Germany and the EU
Preconditions for Avoiding a Rude Awakening
European Union Membership Policy in the Context of Relations with Turkey
Discourse, Ideas and Interests in Germany, the UK, Poland and France