Lara Sosa Popovic, M.A.
Photo: FernUniversität in Hagen/Bernd Müller
Email: lara.sosapopovic
Phone: +49 2331 987- 2455
Office hours: by agreement
Room: C 2.008 KSW
Module Tutor: BA PVS: Modul 25506/P3;
homepage: fernuni-hagen.de
curriculum vitae
| since 02/2023 | Research assistant at the FernUniversität Hagen, Chair of Political Science II (Prof. Dr. Lütz) |
| 2020-2022 | Master's degree in International Relations at the Technical University of Dresden (Master's thesis: A Discourse Network Analysis comparing the European Union's policy responses to Refugees in 2015 and 2022) |
| 05/2021-12/2022 | Constituency worker for MEP Birgit Sippel (focus on asylum and migration, rule of law and digital fundamental rights) |
| 02/2020-12/2020 | Staff member in the campaign team of a mayoral candidate in Stuttgart |
| 2016-2020 | Bachelor's degree in Political and Administrative Science at the University of Konstanz with a stay abroad at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-En-Laye, France. (Bachelor thesis: The Legal Framework and Design of EU Sanctions) |
| 04/2019-06/2019 | Campaign worker for Vice-President of the European Parliament Evelyne Gebhardt |
| 09/2018-03/2019 | Student assistant at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Stuttgart |
| 03/2018-06/2018 | Trainee in the Brussels Office of Vice-President of the European Parliament Evelyne Gebhardt |
Research Focus
- International Relations
- EU policy
- Refugee and migration research
- Feminist foreign policy
Commitment and memberships
- since 2022 Member and author of the research group "IB-Theories and Foreign Policy Research" at the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy e.V. (KFIBS)
- since 2016 Member of the Young European Federalists (various offices at district, state and national level; current co-chair of the JEF Cologne)
- Since 2018 Seminar tutor for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation for "Save the Elections" workshops at schools in the run-up to local, state, federal and European elections, as well as for the exhibition "Strengthening Democracy - Fighting Right-Wing Extremism" and "No Planet B" workshops
- 2018 EU Career Ambassador
- 2017 German Youth Delegate to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in the Council of Europe
Awards received
- Jury Prize of the Technical University of Dresden for the Master's thesis on EU migration policy
- Friedrich Ebert Scholarship for Bachelor and Master studies
- DALF certificate on C1 French language skills
04.11.2024
