Funding, Scholarships & Prizes

Research funding

• Research funding (14,996€) for a study on ‘The Role of the Early European
  Parliament in the Origins of New Policies: The Case of Social Policy’, European
  Parliamentary Research Service, European Parliament, Brussels – 11/2022-10/2023.
• Research fellowship, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt – February to April 2019.
• Research funding (13,000€) for an oral history project on former chairmen and secretaries-general of the European People’s Party, EPP Group in the European Parliament – April 2018 to January 2019.
• Fieldwork Grant (3,000€), IPSE Doctoral School, University of Luxembourg – January to December 2017.
• Scholarship for fieldwork (£1,500), UACES – January to July 2017.
• Funding (12,000€) for the 13^th HEIRS Conference ‘The Informal Construction of Europe’, University of Luxembourg – March 2017.

Scholarships

• 2021 Young Forum Gastein Scholarship, European Health Forum Gastein.
• Short-term research scholarship within the programme “Chancengleichheit für Frauen in Forschung und Lehre“, Augsburg University – August to September 2019.
• Henri Rieben scholarship for archival research (CHF 3,000), Fondation Jean Monnet pour l’Europe – November to December 2017.
• Erasmus+ grant for staff mobility, hosting institution: Gothenburg University – April 2017.
• Erasmus+ grant for staff mobility, hosting institution: Technical University Chemnitz – June 2016.
• Graduate scholarship for a PhD project, German Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) – May 2015 to May 2018.
• Scholarship for BA and MA studies, German Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) – May 2009 to September 2014.

Prizes

• Faculty Teaching Award for the academic year 2023/24 by the University of Augsburg’s Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, awarded for the lecture ‘Introduction to Comparative Politics’.
• Wissenschaftspreis 2023 des Deutschen Bundestages (Science Award 2023 of the German Bundestag) for the monograph ‘The Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy: Turning Talk into Power’ (Palgrave Macmillan), Deutscher Bundestag – May 2023.
• Runner-up, 2018 Luke Foster Prize for Best JCER Article for the article ‘Far Beyond the Treaties’ Clauses: The European Parliament’s Gain in Power, 1952-1979’ (JCER, 2017, 3:2, pp. 1055-1075), UACES and JCER – May 2018.
• European Charlemagne Youth Prize 2015 (1^st Prize) for the Twitter project @RealTimeWW1, Charlemagne Prize Foundation and European Parliament – May 2015.