Research assistant / PhD Student at the Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, University of Ulm, Germany;
2016: Master of Public Health (MPH), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany;
1998: Master of Political Science, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP), Bordeaux, France;
1996: Law degree and French-German law certificate, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux, France, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Erasmus-Program)