DROEMER KNAUR | BOOK PROJECT
Sophie is currently writing a book on political power with German publishing house Droemer Knaur. The non-fiction book will be published in autumn 2023 in bookstores in Germany.
Charlemagne Prize academy | research fellow
Sophie was awarded one of the five 2020/2021 fellowships of the Charlemagne Prize Academy in Aachen. Her research focuses on EU solidarity in the COVID-19 crisis. The European Policy Centre in Brussels is the hosting institution.
EUROPEAN POLICY CENTRE | SENIOR POLICY ANALYST
Sophie is Senior Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre, working on EU institutions, the rule of law and Franco-German relations. She has been managing the Connecting Europe project in cooperation with Stiftung Mercator for over three years, which connects over 40+ CSOs with EU decision-makers; and developing several other projects, such as “Project Presidency” to follow the EU Council Presidencies; or a project on civic cohesion, funded by Civitates.
DAS PROGRESSIVE ZENTRUM | POLICY FELLOW
Since November 2020, Sophie is a Policy Fellow with the Berlin-based think tank Das Progressive Zentrum, where she focuses on German EU Policy, the future of democracy and social cohesion. She worked there beforehand as a full-time employee from 2017-2019. She lead several projects, amongst others the Democracy Lab and the Innocracy Conference, and headed a working group in the Daring New Spaces project.
POLIS180 | Member of the board
Sophie was part of the team which helped established the young grassroots think tank in in Berlin. From 2015-2019, I held a number of positions, starting as head of the “Schengen project team” to organise a first big conference of the think tank on the future of Schengen . She then joined the executive board to coordinate the 5 programmes and to support the strategic coordination, before co-founding a programme area on EU-UK relations. She was also the coordinator for the international network of Polis180 with its sister think tank “foraus” in Switzerland and other partner think tanks in Europe.
THE MIGRANT CRISIS PODCAST | CONTRIBUTOR
Sophie contributed to a podcast set up by two journalists on the migration crisis from 2015-2017. This podcast had as a goal to inform and discuss ongoing events on immigration, integration and identity questions at the time.