Teaching

PhD supervision

I am currently (co-)supervising the following PhD dissertations:

• Sarah Lee, KU Leuven (2024-), topic: Legitimation and the failure of international courts (committee member)
• Konstanze Noelle, Leuphana (2024-), topic: Performance of the informal trilogue process in the EU (main supervisor)

Completed dissertations under my (co-)supervision:

• Mona Saleh, Leuphana University Lüneburg (2024), title: “Surviving Complexity: How the African Union Claims Legitimacy under Conditions of Overlap” (main supervisor)
• Niklas Krösche, GIGA (2023), title: “Explaining African Union Conflict and Crisis Interventions: The Drivers and Dynamics of Security Regionalism in Africa” (main supervisor)
• Swantje Schirmer, GIGA (2022), title: “Why Do Regional Organizations Legitimate Via Human Rights? Set-theoretic Configurations of Localization, Agents, and Audiences of Legitimation” (main supervisor)
• Leonardo Bandarra, GIGA (2020), title: “Nuclear Latency and the Participation Puzzle: Constructing the International Non-proliferation Regime” (main supervisor)
• Mariel Reiss, Marburg University (2020), title: “Constructing the East African Community: The Impact of African and European Regional Organizations on the Emergence and Institutional Design of the East African Community” (second supervisor)
• Insa Ewert, GIGA (2017), title: “The China Watchers: EU Trade Policy in the Making” (second supervisor)

I have also served on PhD examination committees at the following institutions:

• European University Institute (2024)
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2020)