Higher Education
2011	Post-Doc in International Relations (Visiting Research Fellow / Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford) Project financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation
2006 - 2010	PhD in Humanities, and social sciences (doctor of philosophy), University of Fribourg, Switzerland
2000 - 2006	Joint BA and MA degree in Contemporary History & Political Science (University of Fribourg) & in Islamic Studies (University of Bern), Switzerland

	Extracurricular Education
2012 (Hilary)	Academic teaching course (PLTO), University of Oxford -The History Faculty