Since October 2024: Adjunct Lecturer at the Chair of History Didactics and Public History at Ruhr University Bochum
Since September 2023: Staff member in the Industrial Culture Team at the Regionalverband Ruhr
12/2022: Awarded the Sponsorship Prize of the Metropolitan Research Competence Field by the Ruhr University Alliance and the Emschergenossenschaft for outstanding dissertations in the field of metropolitan research
11/2021 Recipient of the SI Club Essen Award for outstanding dissertations in the humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen
04/2021 Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg-Essen
12/2020 Awarded the Teaching Prize of the Faculty of Philosophy at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg
10/2018 – 08/2023 Research Assistant at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
04/2018 Awarded a prize in the category “Professional Work in History” as part of the competition “HAU REIN! Mining in the Ruhr Region: Everyday Life, Knowledge, Change,” organized by the Forum Geschichtskultur an Ruhr und Emscher e. V.
11/2015 – 10/2018 Research Associate at the DFG Research Training Group 1919 “Precaution, Foresight, Prediction: Managing Contingencies through Future-Oriented Action” at the University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2012 – 09/2015 Master’s degree in Public History at Freie Universität Berlin, with a thesis titled: The Sound of Structural Change: Sounds of the Ruhr Region in Archives and Museums
02/2013 – 09/2015 Student Assistant in the Contemporary History Division of the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at Freie Universität Berlin, working on the project “The Soundscape of the Metropolis” led by Prof. Dr. Daniel Morat
09/2014 – 02/2015 ERASMUS scholarship at the University of Amsterdam
2011 – 2014 Internships and freelance work in the fields of museums, archives, and radio
10/2008 – 07/2011 Bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy at the University of Münster, with a thesis titled: “Against Cuno and Poincaré on the Ruhr and the Spree.” On the strategy and symbolism of communist politics during the Ruhr occupation
Research Focuses
Public History
History of Urban Spaces
History of the Ruhr Region
Sound History
Memberships
Fritz Hüser Society (President since March 2024)
Editor of the thematic and central sections of the journal WerkstattGeschichte,
Association of German Historians (VHD), specifically the Working Group on Applied History/Public History within the VHD (2016–2018: Spokesperson for the “Students and Young Professionals” interest group within the working group)
Conference on History Education
German Museum Association
Regionalverband Ruhr
Team Industriekultur
Kronprinzenstraße 35
45128 Essen
