CV
Since 2025: Professor of history with a focus on Africa, University of Bayreuth (W3)
2024: Research Prize of the French Red Cross Foundation
2023: Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Center Global Dis:connect Munic
2022: Fellow at the Center Norbert Elias EHESS Marseille
2018: Professor of history with a focus on Africa, University of Bayreuth (W2)
2016-2018: Researcher, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
2015-2017: Researcher, DFG project ‘Global refuge camps’, Humboldt University Berlin
2009-2014: Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), IAAW, Humboldt University Berlin
2011: PhD, Leipzig University, Institute for African Studies & Université Paris VII
2004-2007: Secondary school teacher, Lycée International des Pontonniers, Strasbourg
2004: MA degree International Humanitarian Action (NOHA), University of Bochum
2002: MA degree Modern and Contemporary History, Medieval History, Geography University of Tübingen & Université d’Aix-Marseille
Institutional responsibilities
Since 2024: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Historical Institute Paris
Since 2024: Member of the jury of the Gerda Henkel Prize (Düsseldorf)
Since 2023: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Historisches Kolleg (Munich)
Since 2023: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM), (Manchester)
Since 2023: Member of the Steering Committee of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) (Bayreuth)
Since 2022: PI in the BMBF-Network ‚Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict’
Since 2020: Co-coordinator of the MA program Global History
Since 2020: Co-editor of the series Africa in Global History at DeGruyter
Since 2020: PI at the Research Center Society, Technology and Ecology in Africa, Challenges in the 21st
Since 2019: PI in the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies