Gesine is an expert on European security and defence, geopolitics, and Europe's role in US-China competition. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, where she works on a research project on Europe's approaches to the Indo-Pacific in the context of US-China competition. She is also finishing her PhD thesis on European defence at the Defence Studies Department of King's College London.
Gesine regularly conducts briefings for governments and international institutions, as well as non-profits and the private sector, or intervenes as a speaker at public and private events and in media in Europe, the United States, and Asia, including the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, or France24. She also regularly publishes on the topics of her expertise in English, French and German, among others for War on the Rocks or Internationale Politik Quarterly.
One of the youngest and few female experts in her field, Gesine's work has been acknowledged through scholarships and distinctions, most recently through the award of the Research Impact Prize by the Faculty for Social Science and Public Policy of King's College London, the Fulbright-Schuman scholarship (2023-2024) and the role as Junior Ambassador of the Munich Security conference (2023).
In the last ten years, Gesine has lived, worked and studied on three continents. She has gained professional experience, among others, at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Paris, with the Shanghai Office of the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, and defence policy advisor at the German Federal Parliament. Gesine holds a M.A. in European Affairs from SciencesPo Paris, a M.A. in Political Science from Freie University Berlin. Besides English, French and German, Gesine also speaks Mandarin Chinese.