I hold an MA (Diplom) in social science from Humboldt University Berlin (2006) and a Ph.D. in political science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2012). Previously I have been a pre-doctoral Fulbright fellow at the University of California, Irvine, a post-doctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and an assistant professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. I am currently assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna.