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CV

Professional Experience

  • Since 2017: Research Associate, Department of Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
    • Since 2025: Deputy Member, Faculty Council, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Philosophische Fakultät)
    • Since 2022: Coordinator for Student Projects
    • Since 2021: Member, Committee for Internationalization
    • Since 2018: Coordination and drafting of self-assessment reports for the re-accreditation and new accreditation of degree programs at the Institute
    • 2020: Redesign of the website (TYPO3) of the Institute of Media and Cultural Studies (with Anna Schürmer)
    • 2018–2022: Erasmus Coordinator and International Affairs Officer
  • 2016–2017: Graduate Research Assistant, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 2013: Internship at the record label, promotion, and booking agency Herzog Records
  • 2012: Music direction for Stravinsky’s Petrushka (including preparation of the score, creation of a shot list for a three-camera setup, and radio-coordination of all participants during the event), as part of the SWR project “Visuelle Eulenspiegeleien” (“Visual Till Eulenspiegel Pranks”)
  • 2012–2014: Undergraduate Research Assistant to Junior Professor Dr. Friedemann Vogel, Institute of Media Culture Studies, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

Education

  • 2017–2024: Doctorate, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (first reader: Prof. Dr. Dirk Matejovski, HHU; second reader: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University of Berlin)
  • 2015–2016: Graduate Fulbright Exchange Student, Pennsylvania State University (PA, USA)
  • 2014–2017: Master’s studies in Media Culture Analysis, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 2014: Research stay at Beijing Foreign Studies University (Beijing, China), as part of the BMBF-funded research project “Chinese-German Image Report” (CDI)
  • 2013–2014: Erasmus study period, University of Vienna
  • 2011–2014: Bachelor’s studies in Media Culture Studies and Musicology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
  • 2011: Abitur (German university entrance qualification), Schiller-Gymnasium, Hameln

Event Organization / Projects

  • Since 2022: Biennial organization of the Team Forum for the presentation and discussion of team projects in the Media Culture Analysis master’s program (HHU), at the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
  • 2026: Organization and direction of the interdisciplinary symposium and ceremony “40 meets 250,” marking the double anniversary of 40 years of Fulbright Alumni e.V. and 250 years since the American Declaration of Independence, at TU Dortmund and the Dortmunder U (June 19–20, 2026)
  • 2025: Seventh edition of Sound Cinema Düsseldorf, October 2, 2025, on the theme “Webscapes” (funded by the Düsseldorf Cultural Affairs Office and the Düsseldorf District Government)
  • 2025: Co-organization of the Film and Media Studies Colloquium at HHU Düsseldorf (with colleagues from the Institute of Media and Cultural Studies)
  • 2024: Workshop speaker, “audio-wissen: On Working with Audio Sources in the Humanities and Cultural Studies,” November 15–16, 2024, ETH Zurich
  • 2024: Sixth edition of Sound Cinema Düsseldorf, October 2, 2024, on the theme “Corporeality” (funded by the Düsseldorf Cultural Affairs Office and the Düsseldorf District Government)
  • 2024: Conception and organization of the panel “Sound | Hacks: Music and Media in (Inter)Action” at the Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society (GfM), September 11–14, 2024, Cologne University of Music and Dance (HfMT)
  • 2024: Workshop participant, “Writing with Voice” (organized by Prof. Dr. Michael Harenberg), February 15–17, 2024, Bern University of the Arts (HKB)
  • 2023: Co-organization of the annual conference of the Working Group on Auditory Culture and Sound Studies of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM), titled “Sonic Architectures” (with Michael Harenberg and Anna Schürmer), Bern, September 7–9, 2023
  • 2023: Fifth edition of Sound Cinema, October 2, 2023, on the theme “Spectralities” (funded by the Cultural Affairs Office and the District Government of Düsseldorf)
  • 2022: Fourth edition of Sound Cinema, October 20, 2022, on the theme “Futurhythmus” (“Future Rhythm”) (funded by the Düsseldorf District Government)
  • 2021: Founding of the association “Sonische Interferenzen e.V.” for the promotion, presentation, and critical reflection of electroacoustic art
  • 2021: Third edition of Sound Cinema, October 14, 2021, on the theme “Isolation” (funded by the Düsseldorf Cultural Affairs Office)
  • 2021: Organization of the symposium “Sonotopien” (“Sonotopias”), October 9, 2021, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (funded by the Düsseldorf District Government)
  • 2020: Hosting of the annual conference of the Working Group on Auditory Culture and Sound Studies (GfM), titled “Acoustic Intelligence – Listening and Obeying” (with Tomy Brautschek and Dr. Anna Schürmer), Düsseldorf, January 30–February 1, 2020
  • 2020: Second edition of Sound Cinema, January 30, 2020, at Cinema Filmkunstkino
  • 2019: First edition of Sound Cinema, April 4, 2019, at Cinema Filmkunstkino

Membership and Engagement in Scholarly Societies and Networks

  • 2024: Co-founder, Music and Media Section, German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung)
  • Since 2021: Spokesperson (Chair), Working Group on Auditory Culture and Sound Studies, German Society for Media Studies (GfM) (with Sarah Hardjowirogo and Max Alt)
  • Since 2019: Spokesperson (Chair), Rhine-Ruhr Regional Group, Fulbright Alumni e.V.
  • Since 2014: Member, German Musicological Society (Gesellschaft für Musikforschung)
  • Since 2014: Member, German Society for Media Studies (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft)