Jan is the Academic Coordinator of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy (ACONA) at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). Additionally, he consults on a joint project mapping arms control education in Europe, led by the VCDNP and UNODA. Previously, he researched dual-use technologies at the Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg, and applied foresight methods to existential threats at the British American Security Information Council (BASIC). He has moderated mid-career arms-control negotiation simulations at the University of Iceland and the Harvard-incubated Negotiation Task Force (NTF), and assisted in managing communications for the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), one of Germany's premier foreign-policy think tanks. His work has been published with the Council on Geostrategy, BASIC, and the Tsinghua International Relations Review, and presented at the Munich Security Conference, German Command and Staff College, and UNODA. Jan has studied at the University of Göttingen, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and King's College London. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies / Modern China and Political Science, an M.A. in International Affairs, and is currently completing his second M.A. in Peace and Security Studies at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), University of Hamburg.