M.A. in North American Studies - with majors History and Literature - and Philosophy (Freie Universität Berlin), PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

Scholarship-holder, DFG-research training group "Generation History. Generational Dynamics and Historical Change in 19th and 20th Century", UGOE; research associate, DSF-funded "The History of War Reporting in the 20th Century", TU Braunschweig; project consultant for "Diversity and Restraint. European Perspectives of Power, Culture and Peace", Berghof Research Center in Berlin

BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI); Monash University; Savitribai Phule Pune University; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Uppsala Universitet

Introduction to Euroculture, Europe in the Wider World, Methodology Seminar, Master Thesis Seminar

U4 Cluster Coordinator Social Sciences, Economics and Law

Co-initiator Research Network "Cultural Mechanisms of Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary Europe" (CMIECE)

Member, examination committee Euroculture

Interview with "The Euroculturer": "Discussing Europeanness?"