Fiona Abken is a doctoral candidate under the supervision of Prof. Claus Kreß and a research assistant at the Institute for International Peace and Security Law since November 2020. Her doctoral thesis is dedicated to questions concerning the responsibility of states for genocide. In the academic year 2020/2021, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz. Fiona Abken has begun her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne in April 2024.