I am currently reading for the MPhil in International Relations at Mansfield College, Oxford, as the 2023-2025 Adam von Trott Scholar.
My main interests involve international security and technological change, military history, and strategic studies. My thesis research focusses on the securitisation of dual-use technologies and explores through which processes some dual-use technologies become integrated into national security agendas whilst others do not or to a lesser extent. In so doing, my research bridges analytical gaps between material and discursive drivers of securitisation, considering high politics, military practices, technological research, and commercial defence-industrial complexes alike. I am particularly interested in cyber, quantum, space, and bio-technologies as well as artificial intelligence and blockchain.
Alongside my degree, I am a fellow at the Oxford China Policy Lab where I research the implications of hybrid AI-quantum stealth detectors for the Sino-American tech war. Additionally, I investigate strategic and ethical implications of the employment of AI in space as a research assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute, participating in the ‘Ethical Principles for the Use of AI for National Security and Defence’ project funded by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. Finally, I also conduct work on the geopolitics of quantum technologies for a geopolitical advisory firm and cover the implications of European politics and macroeconomics for global financial markets.
Prior to joining the DPIR, I completed a BA in Philosophy and Economics at LMU Munich as top of my cohort and the highest-ranked philosophy student at the university. This included a bachelor thesis titled 'Bellum Iustum. An Encounter Between Ancient Ideas, Post-World War II Theories, and Modern Realities' which investigated the historical contingencies and logical status of just war theory from antiquity to the 1990s. My undergraduate studies also included stays abroad at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard University (online), and Oriel College, University of Oxford, primarily studying International Relations and Politics.
My educational journey so far has been complemented by professional experiences, for example as a research intern for a think tank, a research assistant in the field of gender and taxation to LMU's Chair of International Comparative Public Policy, and as the 2021 European Youth Rapporteur to the Council of the European Union in digitisation policy. Further, I am an inclusive leadership trainer and Model United Nations coach at be.boosted e.V. At Oxford, I am additionally active on the committees of both the Oxford Diplomatic Society and the Oxford University International Relations Society.
Research Interests
- Dual-use technologies
- International security
- Ethics of international security
- International Humanitarian Law
- Military History
- Political and International Theory
Scholarships and Awards
- Adam von Trott Scholarship 2023-2025, University of Oxford
- German Academic Scholarship Foundation | Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Scholarship of the Foundation of the German Economy | Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft
- LSE Academic Director's Scholarship
- MLP Scholarship for Academic Performance
- Glemser Scholarship For Future Excellency
Undergraduate Teaching
- International Relations (Core Paper), Wadham College
Languages
- German (native)
- English (C2)
- Italian (B2)
- Latin (Proficiency)
- French (A1)
