I am an Assistant Professor in Global Political Economy at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University and a member of the ERC-funded SWFsEUROPE and CORPNET projects. I am also the PI of the DFF-fundend DECARB project.
Prior to joining RUC, I worked as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), got a PhD from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), and studied Politics, Econonomics and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. Until September 2020, I was furthermore Commissioning Editor at E-International Relations, the world’s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics.
Research
My research deals broadly with the transformations of the global political economy in the transition from a neoliberal towards a post-neoliberal global order. I aim to understand, how people and societies on the one hand, and governments, international organizations, and other collective actors on the other hand position themselves within this transformation. The guiding analytical as well as normative rationale of my research is, as asked by Susan Strange: cui bono?
I have two specific research streams. The first one deals with the relationship between finance and sustainable transitions in Europe and beyond, specifically when it comes to decarbonization processes. My work on the contested politics and possibilities of state ownership decarbonization has been published in political economy outlets and has been awarded a Project 1 grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and an Early Career Fellowship by ISRF. I develop different methodological and conceptual tools to empirically trace these dynamics and suggest concrete decarbonization strategies.
The second stream of my research analyzes the ramifications of an increasingly geoeconomic and statist global order for, among others, climate politics. This stream builds on my PhD project on the rise of transnational state capital and its consequences for global power relations. My current research stream is based on the results and open questions of this project, such as my work on the targets of foreign state-led investment or the geoeconomic turn in global trade and investment (see the Projects tab). My previous work on this has been published in various Political Economy and International Relations outlets such as the Palgrave IPE Series and in an open-access monograph for the Agenda Comparative Political Economy Series (edited by Erik Jones).
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