Carmen is a Principal Investigator in the research consortium 'VeSPoTec – Nuclear Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World: Social, Political, and Technical Processes', funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, and an affiliate researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague.
She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Frankfurt.
Her research focuses on global norm dynamics and practices of contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear disarmament.
Her work has been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Dædalus, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, and other journals.
Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs Springer, 2020
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control University of Georgia Press, 2013
Contestation in Prism
Springer, 2025
