General Tasks
Head of Publications
Expertise/Research Interests
Migration & Asylum, Gender & Intersectionality, Media, social (in-)justice
Regional Expertise
Western Balkans, Austria
Language Skills
German – Mother tongue
English – Fluent
BCSM, Russian, French, Italian – Basic
Professional experience
First journalistic tasks at VICE Media in Berlin, Kleine Zeitung in Graz and Der Standard; other project-based tasks
Student assistant at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz (2019-2023)
Assistant Editor at the IDM (2022)
Research Associate at the IDM (since 2023)
Studies
Bachelor’s Programme “Journalism and Public Relations” at the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum in Graz and the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen
Interdisciplinary Joint Master’s Programme “Southeast-European Studies” at the University of Graz and the University of Belgrade
Publications
Info Europa 1/2024 – “Für Nostalgiker*innen liegt das bessere Morgen hinter uns”
Briefing on Elections in North Macedonia
Intersektionalität und visuelle Versicherheitlichung von Migranten auf der Balkanroute – Angreifer, Beschützer, oder doch Feigling? (Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 6/2023)
Briefing of the parliamentary elections in Serbia
Gender and Visual Securitization of Migrants along the Balkan Route (master thesis, University of Graz)
Info Europa 3/2023 – “Verschleierte Vergangenheit”
Info Europa 1/2023 – “Euphorie aus der Dose”
Info Europa 3/2022: “Das Boot ist voll? Dann schaffen wir endlich sichere Häfen!”
Info Europa 2/2022: “Zuerst Widerstand, dann Wahlkampf”
Journalistic articles in VICE, Der Standard, Kleine Zeitung
BLANK11: Baustelle Europa
Media Appearances
Sebastian Schäffer and Melanie Jaindl: EU Diskurse: Vor welchen Herausforderungen steht Europa? (1), Ö1, 13.05.2024
Vučić’s Serbian majority and Belgrade under pressure in snap elections, Melanie Jaindl zitiert in Brussels Signal, 15.12.2023
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