CV

12/2024 – now

Research Team Leader of the Innovation Team A6 “Demographic Change and Migration” at the European Centre for Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC), MLU Halle-Wittenberg

01/2022 – 10/2022 and 03/2024 – 03/2025

Parental Leave

2018 – 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Human Geography Research Group, MLU Halle-Wittenberg

2019

PhD in Social Sciences (Dr. rer. soc.), title of the dissertation “The Contested Solidarities of Refugee Support in Germany: Actions between Humanitarian Aid and Political Activism” (defended with summa cum laude and awarded the 2021 Research Prize of the Migration and Ethnic Minorities Section of the German Sociological Association)

2014 – 2018

Researcher and PhD Candidate in the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration” and Chair of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz.

2013 – 2014

Master’s degree in “Human Geography – Space, Politics and Power” (MRes) at the University of Glasgow, UK.

2010 – 2013

B.Sc. in Geography at the University of Bayreuth

2009 – 2013

B.A. in African Development Studies in Geography at the University of Bayreuth