Curriculum vitae
Education
09/2019
Doctoral Degree (summa cum laude)
Thesis on 'Technological Governance. The Rise of Network Ideas in the Crisis of Modernity. Foucault, Luhmann, and Cybernetics' (submitted in German, 11/2018)
Board: Prof. Herfried Münkler, Prof. Hartmut Rosa, Prof. Silvia von Steinsdorff
03/2013
Master of Arts (1,0/excellent) in Social Sciences; thesis on the genealogy of transparency (published as vol. 9 in Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hofmann's series "Visual Politics")
08/2010
Bachelor of Arts (1,2/excellent) in German Literature (major) and Social Sciences (minor); thesis on socio-cultural performativity (book publication)
Current positions
since 10/2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology (fixed-term/interim)
since 11/2022
Head of the research group "Ecological Conflicts"
University of Erfurt / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Gerda Henkel Foundation (preparation phase since 11/2022, funding phase 2023-2026)
Other positions
since 03/2023
University of Erfurt
Visiting researcher
since 04/2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Social Theory and Cultural Sociology (Prof. Andreas Reckwitz)
Postdoctoral research fellow
06/2020-09-2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Social Theory and Cultural Sociology (Prof. Andreas Reckwitz)
Postdoctoral research fellow
01/2014 - 05/2020
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Political Theory (Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler)
Research fellow and lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
01/2019 - 02/2019
Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society
Visiting research fellow in "Democracy and Digitalization"
01/2016-06/2016
University of California, Berkeley
Institute of European Studies (Prof. Mark Bevir)
Visiting Researcher
04/2013-12/2013
Humboldt Research Track Scholar (Exzellence Initiative)
and visiting lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2011-2013
CRR 644 "Transformations of Antiquity"
Student assistant with the chair of political theory and the project "Patterns of Imperial Interpretation" (Prof. Dr. Herfried Münkler)
2009-2010
CRR 640 "Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel"
Multiple internships in project coordination
Grants and awards
| 2023-2026 |
Research Group Funding (ca. 235.000 €, with André Brodocz), Gerda Henkel Foundation |
| 2021 |
Open Access Funding for excellent dissertations, Humboldt-University Library |
| 2021 |
Publication Funding for excellent dissertations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin |
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2019 |
Research Fellowship, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society |
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2018 |
Young Researcher Invitation to »Herrenhausen Conference«, Volkswagen Foundation |
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2016 |
Research Grant, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
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2013 |
Humboldt Research Track Scholarship, Excellence Initiative at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
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2008 – 2013 |
Scholarship, Friedrich Ebert Foundation |
Academic service and memberships
- co-publisher and editor at Theorieblog
- journal reviewer: Theory and Society, European Journal of Social Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, History of Humanities, Leviathan, Behemoth, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Analyse & Kritik, BMTW (Special Issue on Ethics)
- member of the DVPW (German Political Science Association)
- member of the DGS (German Sociological Association)
- board of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2021-2023)
- standing doctoral committee at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2016-2021)
- member of several dissertation committees, Department of Social Sciences, HU Berlin
- member of the working group "Political theory in the digital constellation" (2019/20)
- member of a search committee, Department of Social Sciences, HU Berlin (2017/18)