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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