Research areas

• History of modern technoscientific worlds (18th-21th century)
  • Working in knowledge and information societies
  • Research and innovation policy
  • Sciences, technology and industry
  • History of learned societies and universities
  • International relations in science
• Discourse analysis and the history of concepts – approaches and methods
  • Discourse analysis in historical perspective
  • The history of concepts in transcultural perspective
  • Digital approaches in the history of concepts
• History of the Nazi period
  • Institutions and actors
  • Science and technology under the Nazi Regime
  • Dealing with the Nazi past after 1945
• Genesis of the modern disciplinary society (18th-20th century)
  • Prison history
  • Prisoners care and probation system
  • Social expertise in jurisdiction
  • History of criminology
  • History of protests and social movements

Professional services and memberships

• Member of the Presidential Commission "Culture of Remembrance of the Leopoldina" at the National Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina" (Halle)
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the project „Biographische Studien zu den Leopoldina-Mitgliedern im Nationalsozialismus“ with the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, funded by the VW Foundation
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the project „Geschichte der TH Dresden im NS“ at the Technical University of Dresden
• Member of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German Historical Association)
• Member of the Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte e.V. (German Association for the History of Technology), from 2016 to 2022 member of steering committee)
• Member of the Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Medizin und Technik e.V. (German Association for the history of sciences, medicine and technology)

Cooperations

• Since 2023, Cooperation partner in the project “Public Humanities and Pedagogy in the Global South: Challenges and Directions”, Birla Institut of Technology and Science Piliani (Goa Campus), financed by the Indian Government program „Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration“
• Since 2023, Lecturer at the Concepta Summer School: Introduction to Conceptual History, organized by the History of Concepts Group- Concepta

CV

• Since 2023, Professor (interim) for Cultural Studies of Technology at the KIT
• Since 2022, Associated Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
• 2022 –2023, Research Fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Studies in Literature and Cultures in Berlin (ZFL)
• 2022 – 2022, Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam
• 2021 – 2022 Professor (interim) for the History of Technology, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• 2021 – 2021, Senior Researcher at The Forum Internationale Wissenschaft (FIW), University of Bonn, Germany
• 2018, Habilitation in History of Science and Technology, at the TUM School of Education, Technical University of Munich
• 2017 – 2021, Senior Researcher at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanites (project “The Göttingen Academy in the Nazi Period”)
• 2015 – 2016, Laura-Bassi Fellow at the Technical University of Munich
• 2014, Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute London, UK
• 2009 – 2015, Dilthey Fellow, Subject Area History of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany, financed by the VW foundation (project “Republic of Science”)
• 2006 –  2009, Research Associate, Central Institute for the History of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Germany (DFG Collaborative Research Centres 536 “Reflexive Modernization”)
• 2006, Ph.D. in modern history (Dr. phil) from the Faculty of Humanities, University of Cologne, Germany, dissertation on the history of private associations for prisoners’ care in Germany (1777-1933)
• 2002 – 2005, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany, part of the DFG-priority program 1143 „Wissenschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft. Deutschland im internationalen Zusammenhang im späten 19. und im 20. Jahrhundert“)
• 1999 – 2001, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Cologne, Germany
• Studies in Modern History, Sociology and German Literature at the University of Cologne, Germany

Awards and Prizes

• 2019, Habilitation prize by the TUM Association of Alumni and Friends
• 2015, Publication prizes by the Deutsche Museum for „What is Basic Research? Insights from Historical Semantics“, in: Minerva 52 (2014)
• 1999, Ehrhardt-Imelmann-Prize by the University of Collogne for the Master Thesis „Die Martinskirmes von 1846 in Köln. Eine Fallstudie zum Protest im Vormärz“

Publications