Curriculum Vitae

since 2023	Professor of Environmental and Technological History at the University of Passau
2025	Appointment Fellow of the Interdisciplinary Center for Peace and Conflict Research in Bavaria in February 2025. Link
2018-2023	Junior Professor of Non-European History of the 19th and 20th centuries at Kiel University
2022	Habilitation in Modern History at Kiel University with a thesis on colonial environmental history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
2016-2018	Assistan Professor at the Chair of Non-European History, University of Duisburg-Essen
2016	Postdoc-scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute, London
2014-2016	Assistant Professor (Postdoc) in the DFG-project ›Leopardenmänner. Ein translokales Gewaltphänomen in der kolonialen Phase Afrikas (Sierra Leone/Liberia 1880–1950)‹ at the University of Kassel
2015	Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Kassel with a dissertation on concepts of geography and nature in the Islamization ot the 18th and 19th centuries.
2011-2013	Assistant Professor in the project ›Soziales Handeln an der frontier. Macht, Krieg und Religion im vorkolonialen Westafrika‹ (University of Kassel, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation)
2010-2011	Assistant Professor (Coordinator) of the DFG Research Group ›Gewaltgemeinschaften‹ at Justus Liebig University Gießen
2010	Magistra Artium at Justus Liebig University Gießen
	Studies in Medieval and Modern History, Specialist Journalism, Arabic Studies and Philosophy (Justus Liebig University Gießen and Phillips University Marburg), as well as African Linguistics (Kiswahili, Fulfulde, Hausa) at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main