skip to content

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