Academic Positions
Since 2019: University Assistant (postdoc) at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology, University of Vienna
Education
Doctorate (summa cum laude), Archaeology, University of Freiburg, Germany (2019)
Dissertation titel: “Image, Ornament, and Aesthetics: The Archaeology of Art in the Merovingian World (c. AD 450–750).”
MA (by research), History of Art, University of York, UK (2016)
MA, Archaeology, University of Freiburg, Germany (2014)
BA, Archaeology (major) and History (minor), University of Bonn, Germany (2012)
Awards & Grants
Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, School of Historical Studies, Membership 2023/24
DAI Travel Grant 2020-2021 (Reisestipendium des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2020/2021).
Barbara Scholkmann Early Career Award for Historical Archaeology 2018 (Barbara Scholkmann Förderpreis für Historische Archäologie 2018), for the book Archäologische Chronologie und historische Interpretation.
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 3-Year PhD Fellowship, 2016–2018.
German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Student Fellowship, 2013–2015.
Organised Conferences
“Interrogating the ‘Germanic’: A Category and its Use in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”, (co-organized with James M. Harland and Nik Gunn). Held at the University of York, UK, 13–15 May 2016.