Viktoria Sochor
Main Focus
- European integration history
- EU law and EU administrative law
- Biographies of officials and staff of the EU institutions
- EU enlargement policy and EU external relations
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Educational background
Since August 2025
PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Department Stefan Vogenauer
October 2023–June 2025
Postgraduate studies (MPhil) in Politics (European Politics and Society) at the University of Oxford, Pembroke College; funded by a scholarship of the DAAD, the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
August–September 2024
Research stay at the European University Institute, Archives of the European Union, Florence; funded by a Postgraduate Vibeke Sørensen Grant
October 2019–September 2022
Political Science and Law (BA) at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; funded by a scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Previous Professional Experience
January 2025–March 2025
Research Assistant to Dr. Leonardo Carella (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and Dr. Klaudia Wegschaider (Yale University), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
March–April 2024/June–July 2024
Research Assistant to Dr. Mihail Chiru, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
March 2023–July 2023
Blue Book Trainee (Stagiaire) at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Competition, Unit A.5 International Relations/Foreign Subsidies Task Force, Brussels
August 2021–September 2022
Student research assistant at the Institute for Democracy Research (Prof. Dr. Simon T. Franzmann), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
October 2021–February 2022
Tutor at the Institute of Political Science, Chair of International Relations (Prof. Dr. Anja Jetschke), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen