Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experiences

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project WARLUX – The Impact of War Experiences in Luxembourg during the Second World War – Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg (15/03/2020 – present).

Research Associate in the History of Justice Project, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg (15/09/2018 – 14/03/2020).

Visiting Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA (02/01/2018 – 31/03/2018)

Visiting Researcher Oral History Institute for the History of World War II Voronezh, Russia (01/05/2017 – 31/12/2017)

Research assistant in the project “Digitisation and data curation of documents on Soviet and German prisoners of war of the Second World War ” at the German Historical Institute Moscow, Russia and at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. Berlin, Germany (01/10/2016 – 31/12/2016)

Research Associate in the Harry & Helen Gray Reconciliation Program American Institute for Contemporary German Studies/Johns Hopkins University Washington, D.C., USA (01/08/2016 – 30/09/2016)         

Visiting Fellow in World War II History, Department of History, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (01/03/2016 – 30/06/2016)

Programme Assistant, Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. Berlin, Germany (01/09/2015 – 31/12/2015)

Research Assistant, European and Jewish History, Bucerius Institute for Contemporary German History and Centre for German and European Studies, University of Haifa, Israel (01/04/2013 – 31/07/2013)

Archivist and Data Curator, Federal Archives, Military Archives Department, Freiburg, Germany (01/10/2008 – 30/06/2015)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, Germany (01/05/2015 – 30/09/2018)

Dissertation: “Die deutschen Soldatengräber zwischen Heldenverherrlichung und Zeichen der Versöhnung Historische und kulturwissenschaftliche Fallstudien zum Kriegstod” (German Soldiers’ Graves between Glorification of Heroes and Sign of Reconciliation – Historical and Cultural Studies on War Deaths), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Norbert Fischer – Successful defence: 13/02/2019 magna cum laude

Master of Arts, Modern European History at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, (01/04/2009 – 28/12/2013) / part-time archivist at the Bundesarchiv 

Bachelor of Arts in Archive and Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences for Archiving Marburg, Germany (01/10/2006 – 30/09/2008)