Since February 2021, Aline Bartenstein has been a Researcher in the “Societal Peace and Internal Security” research area. Aline works on a project on “Cohesion through security?” which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Between 2013 and 2020, Aline was a Research Associate at the Jean Mean Chair for EU Studies (Prof Wessels) at the University of Cologne. She studied Political Science, Energy Economics and European Studies at the University of Cologne, Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier and Masaryk University in Brno. Currently, Aline is about to finish her PhD focusing on solidarity between EU Member States and its application in secondary energy law.

Aline Bartenstein analyses the interrelation of cohesion and security in the EU. The research project centres around the question how cohesion is produced by routines and security practices in different political and administrative bodies in the “machinery room” of European integration.
Previously, Aline focused on simulation games as innovative teaching approach in higher education and worked in a research project on EU foreign energy policy.