Curriculum Vitae
October 2024 to July 2025 | Fellow at the Käthe-Hamburger Research Centre “global dis:connect,” LMU München |
March to April 2019 | Guest Professor at Sciences Po Paris |
Summer Term 2016 | Fellow at the Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, Cologne |
Since 2013 | Professor of History of Europe and European Colonialism at the University of Cologne |
Summer Term 2012 | Guest Professor at the University of Mannheim (Chair of Prof. J. Paulmann) |
2010 | Habilitation at the University BW Munich (Topic: “Koloniale Begegnungen. Deutschland und Großbritannien als Imperialmächte in Afrika 1880-1914”) |
2009 to 2013 | Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Bielefeld |
2008 | Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute Florence |
2007 | Research in London, Research Scholarship by the German Historical Institute London |
2007 | Research in South Africa and Namibia, Grant by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
2005-2006 | Feodor Lynen Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Cambridge, UK; Research Fellow of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
2001-2009 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the Historical Institute, University BW Munich |
2001 | Prize of the German Historical Institute London for doctoral thesis |
2001 | PhD in Modern History (summa cum laude), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Topic: “Gesundheitspolitik in der Nachkriegszeit. Großbritannien und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Vergleich”) |
1998 | PhD research scholarship by the German Historical Institute London |
1997-2001 | Research associate at the Historical Institute, University BW Munich |
1996 | PhD scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
1995 | MA in Modern History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, studies in Modern European History, Medieval History, and German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich and at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, UK |