Serafine Dinkel joined the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for the Future of Europe in December 2020. Prior to joining DGAP, Ms Dinkel worked as a research assistant at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and as a blue book trainee in the strategic policy planning division of the European External Action Service, focusing on the topic of European strategic autonomy. She was also a research assistant to the chair of European and international politics of the University of St. Gallen and interned in the political department of the German Embassy to the United Kingdom. Ms Dinkel is a PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Warwick within the Horizon Europe GEM-DIAMOND project (Globalisation, Europe, and Multilateralism – Democratic Institutions, the rise of Alternative Models and mounting Normative Dissensus). Her PhD project deals with EU conditionality in competition with third countries in Serbia and Georgia.