CV
Profile
Media scholar with a focus on media and media policy history. Experience in digitally supported analysis of historical sources, discourse analysis and emotional history, with a particular interest in the relationship between the state and the media in the 20th century.
Academic career
July 2025: Completion of PhD programme with dissertation project Der Staat gegen das verführerische Spiel: Automaten- und Computerspielkontrolle in Preußen, der Weimarer Republik, dem NS-Staat und der Bonner Republik (The State Against the Seductive Game: Regulation of Coin Operated and Computer Games in Prussia, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi State, and the Bonn Republic) („summa cum laude“, PhD title will be awarded after publication)
2022-2025: Scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne
2021-2025: Doctoral candidate in Theatre and Media Studies at the University of Cologne
2017-2020: Master of Arts in Media Culture Studies at the University of Cologne
2013-2017: Bachelor of Arts in Media Culture Studies and English Studies at the University of Cologne
Further education
June 2025: Introduction to Programming with Python (Harvard‘s CS50)
December 2024: Research Data Management (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne)
September 2023: Automatic Text Recognition (German Historical Institute Paris)
Professional experience
2020-2022: Online editor (result gmbh)
2029-2020: Research assistant (Institute for Media Culture and Theatre, University of Cologne)
2017-2020: Working student in digital editing (result gmbh)
Research interests
History of media and media control
History of discourse and emotions
Media policy
Game studies
Programming
Good knowledge of CSL and Nunjucks.
Some experience with sh/bash and Perl scripting and web development.
Language skills
German native speaker, English C1, basic knowledge of French and Dutch.
Memberships and Offices
Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaften (GfM)
Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (VHD)
Arbeitskreis Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele (AKGWDS)
Bundesverband Promovierende (Co-Founder, Executive Board member 2023-2024)
Speaker of the PhD researchers at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne (2022–2024)