About
This is me.
I am a historian by training, I teach, consult, research, design, write and am a mother of three.
My research expertise lies in global history and the history of development, with a focus on Africa and international organisations.
I am passionate about new work, empowering and making more visible women experts from all backgrounds and using social media for research communication.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow at the department for economic and social history at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg. For a complete list of my research publications, visit my profiles on google scholar or ORCID.
CV
since 04.2022
Philipps Universität Marburg
Institute for History, Chair for Economic and Social History
Postdoctoral Research Associate
03.2019 – 3.2022
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institute for History, Chair for Economic and Social History
Principal Investigator: DFG-Project “Aviation in Postcolonial Africa” | Postdoctoral Research Associate
10.2019 – 12.2019
Université Felix-Houphouet-Boigny, Cocody Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Visiting scholar
03.2017 – 09.2018
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institute for African and Asian Studies
Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow
12.2015 – 07.2016
Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University
Centre Français des études éthiopiennes, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Consultant for Tourism and Heritage | Visiting Scholar
09.2014 – 06.2015
Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris, France
Visiting doctoral student
09.2013 – 12.2017
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Institute for Historical Sciences
PhD, Doctoral Project “UNESCO World Heritage in Ethiopia”
Final grade: Magna cum laude
since 2013
Consultant (freelance)
various clients
+ Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin
+ private real estate projects
+ Centre of Political Economy and Society (copes), Berlin
+ UNESCO regional office, Addis Ababa
10.2003 – 09.2010
Berlin Technical University
Course of studies: New and medieval history, sociology of technical sciences
Degree: Magistra Artium (M.A.), grade: very good
Grants and Awards
2019
open-access funding by the HU Berlin and the Gerda Henkel Foundation
2019
DFG Grant for a research project and temporary position as PI (“Eigene Stelle”)
2018
PostDoc Fellowship of the Humboldt University of Berlin
2014-2017
Doctoral scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation