I am currently working as researcher at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG) at Bielefeld University, Germany. During the summer term 2021, I held the Marsilius-Vertretungsprofessur für Humangeographie Nordamerikas und Stadtgeographie (interim professorship on human geography of North America and urban geography) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. My research focusses on international migration and urban developments and, more broadly, on the interrelation of materiality and sociality in postmodern societies. I habilitated at the Department of Geography, University of Bremen, Germany, in 2019 (venia legendi “Humangeographie”) and obtained my PhD at Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2013. In 2017, I was a Visiting Academic at the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. My most recent book is Migration, Materialität und Identität (Steiner 2020), a monograph on international migrants’ ways of living at and between places.
| since 10/2021 | Senior Research, IKG/Bielefeld University, Germany | |
| Summer term 2021 | Marsilius-Vertretungsprofessur für Humangeographie Nordamerikas und Stadtgeographie (interim professorship on human geography of North America and urban geography), University of Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Winter term 2020/2021 | Deputy Head of the Working Group Human Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany | |
| since 2020 | Member of the Research Network “Visualising Qualitative Geographies”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | |
| since 2019 | Senior Researcher, Osnabrück University, Germany | |
| 2013-2019 | Senior Researcher, Department of Geography, University of Bremen, Germany | |
| 2-4/2017 | Visiting Academic, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK | |
| 2013 | PhD, Bielefeld University, Germany (summa cum laude) | |
| 2012-2013 | Junior Researcher, Research Group “Urban Metamorphoses”, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2012-2013 | Fellow of the residency program Scholars in Residence, Goethe-Institut with Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Germany & Egypt | |
| 2010-2012 | Scholarship Holder, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University, Germany | |
| 2007-2010 | Research Assistant, Center of Excellence 16 “Cultural Foundations of Integration”, University of Konstanz, Germany | |
| 2000-2007 | Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in sociology, philosophy, linguistics and German literature, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Växjö, Sweden | |
| 2000-2007 | Scholarship Holder, German Protestant church’s scholarship programme for gifted students (Ev. Studienwerk e.V. Villigst) |