since 2012
Head of the Research Project: „Moral Economies? Industrial Worker Co-operatives in West Germany and France in the 1970s and 1980s“ at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

since 2012
Lecturer at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin

since 2010
Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

2009 - 2010
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Central Institute for the History of Technology, Technische Universität, Munich

2005 - Feb. 2009
PhD in History (2009), Technische Universität, Munich
Thesis: The Shoe under National Socialism. A Product History in Germany compared with Britain and the United States of America

2001 - 2004
Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Economic and Social History, University of Goettingen

2001
M. A. in History at Freie Universität Berlin
Major Fields: Modern history, History of Science and Technology

Research Related Awards and Fellowships:

2012
Programme Grant for Research Project: "Moral Economies? Industrial Worker Co-operatives in West Germany and France in the 1970s and 1980s",
Foundation for Education and Research (Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft), Essen, Germany (Period of Award: October 2012–Sept. 2014)

2010
Hedwig Hintze Prize of the German Historical Association
(biennial award for the best dissertation in history - one award in all fields)

2009
Deutsches Museum, Munich, Postdoctoral Research Scholarship

2006
Technische Universität, Munich, Dissertation Grant

2003-2004
German Historical Institute, Washington D. C., Doctoral Fellowship

2003
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society in Wilmington/Delaware, Dissertation Research Grant

2003
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dissertation Research Grant

2001
Prize of the Georg Agricola Society for best dissertation or MA thesis of the year in the History of Science and Technology