Scholarly Interests
Authorship and Publishing ∙ Cultural Sociology ∙ Sociology of Literature ∙ Democratic Theory ∙ Resonance Theory
02-2023 – today
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Center for Cultural Sociology. Cultural sociological research on literary authorship and social theory (funded by the DFG: Walter Benjamin-Stipend).
01-2024 – 05-2024: Research Fellow, Literature & Society Lab, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
12-2020 – 02-2023
Researcher, DZHW (German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies), Berlin.
12-2020 – 05-2022: Phoenix – Academic Authorship revised (funded by BMBF; PI: Dr. Cornelia Schendzielorz).
11-2021 – 02-2023: Wissenschaftskulturen in Deutschland (commissioned by VolkswagenStiftung).
01-2022 – 02-2023: Responsible valuation and quality assurance of open access publications via bibliometric indicators (funded by BMBF; PI: Dr. Stephan Stahlschmidt).
03-2018 – 03-2019
Research Assistant, Chair of Economic History, LMU Munich. Supporting research staff for conducting historical-sociological research (PI: Cathrin Mohr).
09-2017 – 05-2021
PhD, Department of Information Studies, UCL. Thesis: Rationalities of Scholarly Discourse: A Cultural Sociological Analysis of Authorship and Publishing in the Humanities (supervision: Prof Samantha Rayner, Prof Elizabeth Shepherd).
01-2020 – 05-2020
Visiting Graduate Student, Yale University, Department of Sociology
10-2015 – 02-2016
Research Assistant, Academic Book of the Future Project, UCL & King’s College London
09-2015 – 09-2016
Publishing, Master of Arts, UCL. Thesis: Brand Equity and Its Strategic Source in Scholarly Journal Publishing.
10-2011 – 07-2015
Verlagswirtschaft, Bachelor of Arts, HTWK Leipzig, Germany. Thesis: Strategieentwicklung am Beispiel der Leipziger Buchmesse: Eine Wettbewerbs- und Geschäftsanalyse zur Formulierung einer Gesamtstrategie für die Leipziger Buchmesse.
10-2011 – 07-2012: Business Administration, HTWK Leipzig, Germany
09-2007 – 06-2010
Bookseller, Apprenticeship, Haus der Bücher, Einbeck, Germany
Selected Scholarships & Awards
Postdoc
Walter Benjamin Scholarship, German Research Foundation, 3-year full stipend
PhD
Doctoral scholarship of the Arts & Humanities Research Council UK through the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP)
PhD
Doctoral scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2018
Travel and study grant to attend the Summer School on General Architecture for Text Engineering at the University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science
2016
Society for Scholarly Publishing International Fellowship
2016
Bertelsmann Strategy Workshop, 3rd prize
2016
Dean’s List of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL, for outstanding academic performance
2016
Departmental Prize for the best MA Publishing student, class of 2016
MA
John Wiley & Sons Scholarship covering the full MA at UCL
BA, MA
Full scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)