General Tasks
Coordination of the project CitizEn “Citizens for EU Enlargement – Building Societal Readiness for an Enlarged European Union”
Info Europa Editor-in-chief
Coordination of the DRC Secretariat
Coordination of the Danubius Awards
Organisation of events
Expertise
EU Enlargement, Citizen participation, EU Reform, European Integration
Country Expertise
Bulgaria, Black Sea Region, Russian Federation
Language Skills
German – Native speaker
English – Fluent
Russian – Advanced
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Slovak, Italian – Basic knowledge
Professional Experience
Research Assistant at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna (2021-2023)
Research Assistant at the Institute for Political Narratives (IfPON) in Leipzig (2022)
Research Assistant at the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) (2019-2023)
Education
Master in Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna (semester abroad in Moscow, RSUH)
Bachelor in Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna
Bachelor in German Philology at the University of Vienna
Fellowships
Charlemagne Prize Academy Fellow (2024-2025)
Publications
Verkehrspolitik (mit Sebastian Schäffer), in: Werner Weidenfeld und Wolfgang Wessels (Hg.), Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration 2025, Nomos: Baden-Baden 2025, S. 297-300.
Rumänien (with Sebastian Schäffer), in: MUNZINGER Länder
Info Europa 1/2024 – „Das Geschäft mit der Ostalgie”, 02.04.2024
Info Europa 3/2023 – „Nordmazedonien: Der Weg in die EU führt über Bulgarien“, 02.12.2023
„Our Danube Stories“ in: Sebastian Schäffer (Hrsg.), “#MyDanubestory“, Vienna, story.one publishing, 2023
Nadija Afanasieva, Sophia Beiter, Mykhailo Omelchenko: „Back to Spring: Towards a New European Security Architecture“ – Der Donauraum 3-4/2023 „Growing Together Or Drifting Apart?“
Info Europa 2/2023 – “Verschwommene Grenzen im Nordkosovo”, 15.07.2023
Media Appearances
2026
EU: Warum gibt es keine Nostalgie für Erweiterung? (with Sebastian Schäffer), Die Presse, 14.04.2026.
2025
Europas größte Errungenschaft in Gefahr (with Sebastian Schäffer), Die Presse, 21.11.2025.
“The Middle East crisis is on the table for leaders at the European Union summit in Brussels”, AlQahera News, 26.06.2025
2024
Bitte ein Spitzenprogramm statt Spitzenkandidaten, Die Presse, 20.05.2024
Eines der drängendsten Themen unserer Zeit, with Sophia Beiter and Sebastian Schäffer, DiePresse, 20.11.2023
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