Simon Koschut was an associate fellow in DGAP’s Transatlantic Relations Program. He is assistant professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

From 2010 to 2011, he was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Between 2009 and 2010, he was assistant professor for North American foreign and security policy at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University, Berlin. From 2006-2009, he was research fellow at the DGAP.

He is the author of The Limits of Cooperation. Transatlantic Security Identity after the End of the East-West Conflict and co-editor of the German UTB-textbook US Foreign Policy.

He studied political science and North American studies in Bonn, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Berlin. He received his doctorate from the University of Potsdam in 2009.

[Last updated: April 2023]