I am a senior research fellow at the Global Governance unit of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. My research is inspired by the observation that virtually all global policy challenges, such as financial stability, international trade, migration, global health, and environmental sustainability are governed by international institutions which find their particular competences overlapping under no coordination from an overarching authority. The key question that motivates my work is to what extent effective and legitimate global governance is possible in such an environment. After visiting scholarships at the University of California at Berkeley and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, I joined the WZB in 2011. Previously, I earned a doctorate summa cum laude from the University of Bamberg, where I held a grant from the DFG Training Group “Markets and Social Systems in Europe”. I have published my work in articles that appeared in The Review of International Organizations, Global Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, and Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen. In 2015, I published my first book entitled Von Konkurrenz zu Arbeitsteilung. Komplexität und Dynamik im Zusammenspiel internationaler Institutionen [From Competition to Division of Labor: Complexity and Dynamics in the Interplay of International Institutions]. I have taught at the University of Bamberg, Freie Universität Berlin, and Charles University in Prague.