Jonathan is a Research Associate in the project “Trust after Betrayal: Global Development Interventions in Contexts of Organized Violence”, which is led by Dr Erin McFee and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). In the project, he investigates the dynamics of interpersonal trust based on ethnographic data from war, post-war, and non-war violent settings around the world. His work contributes to the overarching goal of the project, which is to evaluate and rethink existing development interventions that deal with the repercussions of intrastate armed conflict.

In 2021, Jonathan graduated with a BA in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin, spending the 2019/2020 academic year at University College London through an Erasmus+ mobility. In 2022, he completed an MSc in International Social and Public Policy at the London School of Economics with the dissertation: “Empowering Indigenous Classrooms: A Grounded Theory of Intercultural Bilingual Education in Chiapas, Mexico”. Jonathan grew up in Germany and caught an interest in Latin America and issues of armed conflict while spending a year in Colombia in 2017/2018. Prior to joining the LACC he worked in a research project on German Federalism during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Chair of German Politics of the Freie Universität Berlin.