since March 2023
Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Gustav Mahler Private University of Music, Klagenfurt (Austria)

2021 -2023
Assistant Professor, Institute for European Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne

since 2018
Coordinator for Germany, Creative Europe Project 'Orpheus XXI'

2017 - 2021
Substitute Assistant Professor, Institute for European Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne

since 2009
Research Associate, Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM-CNRS), Paris, France

2014– 2016
Research Associate, Labexmed ATRI 5 project 'Un fil d'Ariane dans l'espace euro-méditerranéen: L'absence comme modalité d'appartenance', Laboratoire méditerranéen de sociologie, MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France

1999 – 2010
Freelance journalist, Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, BR Klassik, MDR Figaro

2009 – 2017
Lecturer in ethnomusicology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg  

2007– 2010
Researcher, Fritz Thyssen Foundation project 'Visual and Aural Representations of Albanian Identity’, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2007 – 2009
Graduate Scholarship, Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt

2007– 2012
Doctoral Studies in ethnomusicology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, France

1999 – 2005
Master Studies in musicology, art history and history, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

• Music, Migration and Citizenship
• Soundscape Studies
• Audiovisual Anthropology
• Participatory Research
• Sound, Memory and Identity in Southeastern Europe
• Music History of (Post)communism