Eastern Europe, Eurasia Senior Fellow
Since 2015 (Senior) associate, research division Eastern Europe and Eurasia, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
10–12/2018 German permanent representation to the OSCE
2014 PhD, University of Bremen
2013–2015 research fellow, postdoc in the EU FP7-project “Intra- and Inter-Societal Sources of Instability in the Caucasus and EU Opportunities to Respond”
2012–2013 Forum Ebenhausen fellow
Imaginaries, the Effects of Power, Ambivalences
doi:10.18449/2023RP09
Political Crisis and Regional Changes Need an EU Response
doi:10.18449/2021C26
doi:10.18449/2020RP15
The Potential and Limits of the OSCE’s Economic and Environmental Dimension
doi:10.18449/2019RP16
Relations between Tbilisi and Beijing in the Light of the Belt-and-Road Initiative
Domestic Quarrels and Local Elections Show: “Winner Takes All” Likely to Continue
Special Editor: Franziska Smolnik; with articles by Sofie Bedford; Ulrike Ziemer; Anna Cieślewska
Special Editor: Franziska Smolnik, with articles by Mariam Zabakhidze, Irakli Gabriadze, Rezo Beradze, Giorgi Khishtovani (Tbilisi); Evelina Gambino (London); Susanne Fehlings (Frankfurt am Main)