Expert on civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. MA in Political Science from Leipzig University, visiting student at Warsaw University. MA thesis on local authoritarian governance in Russia. 2014-2022 projects on human rights monitoring and support for local civic initiatives in Eastern Ukraine. 2019-2022 projects on German-Polish political cooperation in regard to Ukraine, and Belarus. 2022-2024 based in Ukraine, projects on social cohesion. Since 2024 with the German organization Kurve Wustrow e.V.