Education
10/2019 – Present
DPhil Student
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
09/2018 – Present (on leave)
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
09/2018 – 12/2019
MA Political Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
10/2017 – 09/2018
MSc In Politics Research (Comparative Government)
Department of Politics and International Relations
St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
03/2015 – 06/2018
BSc Sustainable Management
Technical University Berlin
09/2016 – 12/2016
Visiting Student
European Social and Political Studies
University College London
08/2015 – 12/2015
Visiting Student
Department of Public Policy and
Department of Asian and International Studies
City University of Hong Kong
10/2013 – 01/2017
BA Social Sciences
(Political Science and Sociology)
Humboldt University Berlin
Conference Presentations
07/2018
Scuola Normale Superiore, Centre on Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), Florence, Italy
Summer School: Youth Political Participation in Times of Inequalities
“Explaining Youth Activism in (Post-) Authoritarian Settings: Insights from Myanmar”
03/2018
IDS, University of Sussex, UK
The Politics of Unruly Ruptures Workshop
Invited to present on fuel price protest in Myanmar
02/2018
University of Oxford, UK
St Antony’s Research-in-Progress Colloquium
“Explaining Youth Activism in (Post-) Authoritarian Settings: Insights from Myanmar”
05/2017
ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop “Authoritarian Legacies”
University of Nottingham, UK
“An Alternative Assessment: What Protests Can Tell Us About Top-Down Transitions”
10/2016
International Burma Studies Conference
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA
“Meaningful Liberalization or Liberalized Autocracy? An Empirical View on Civil Liberties in Myanmar’s Transition”
07/2016
ECPR Graduate Student Conference
University of Tallinn, Estonia
“Is Myanmar Moving Towards Freedom? An Empirical View on Civil Liberties in Political Transition”
06/2016
Interdisciplinary Myanmar Conference
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
“Liberalisierung in Myanmar: ein empirischer Blick auf politische Teilhaberechte in politischer Transition”
04/2016
IAPSS World Congress “Challenging Democracy”
Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
“Democratic Change in Myanmar? An Empirical View on Civil Liberties in Transition”
12/2015
Burma/Myanmar: Taking the Transition to the Next
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
“Democratic Change in Myanmar? An Empirical View on Freedom of Assembly since 2011”
My full CV is available upon request.