Historian and art historian whose research focuses on the history of collecting, the history of knowledge, and materiality studies. Following her studies and a doctorate on Prussian military chaplains in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, she held positions in the museum and academic sectors, including at the Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Since 2026 she has been a researcher on the AI GAIA at the Universität Göttingen, focusing on materiality-related and data-driven research approaches.
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Postdoctoral Researcher on the project “Generative Artificial Intelligence Agent” (GAIA), funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (funding period 2024–2031).
Co-editor of an edited volume, “Mineralogie und Macht. Extraktivismus zwischen Forschungspraxis und Expansionspolitik (1920er–1950er)” (Mineralogy and Power: Extractivism between Research Practice and Expansionist Politics, 1920s–1950s), in collaboration with the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft.
Data analysis project within the HERMES research study programme for advancing data literacy in the humanities, at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt am Main.
Collection donations as socio-economic processes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Project "Mobile Obejekte"(Mobile Objects) in the Cluster of Excellence Bild–Wissen–Gestaltung at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2018).
Doctoral project „Freigeister und Pragmatiker. Die preußischen Feldprediger 1750–1806” (The Prussian Army Chaplains, 1750–1806), doctorate at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (defence 2017, degree conferred 2021).
“Das Temporäre Objektlabor” (The Temporary Object Laboratory) at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik (2019)
“1813 - Auf dem Schlachtfeld bei Leipzig. Ein Rundgang durch das Gemälde ‚Siegesmeldung‘ von Johann Peter Krafft” (1813 – On the Battlefield near Leipzig: A Tour of Johann Peter Krafft’s Painting ‘Siegesmeldung’ [Announcement of Victory]) at the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin (2013)
“Rund um die Welt. Tourismusplakate aus der Sammlung des Deutschen Historischen Museums” (Around the World: Tourism Posters from the Collection of the Deutsches Historisches Museum) at the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin (2013)
Christmas exhibition “Jul i Butikken” (Christmas in the Shop) at the open-air museum Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark (2007)
Deutscher Museumbund e.V. (German Museums Association)
Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung für die Mark Brandenburg e.V.
