Since 2025
Emmy Noether Research Group Leader “Management and Planning for Development: A Transregional Perspective (1950-1990),” University of Cologne

2019-2024
Assistant Professor (non-tenured) and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna

2016-2019
Assistant Professor (non-tenured), Department of History, University of Siegen

2016
Doctorate at the University of Gießen (Hedwig-Hintze-Award of the Association of German Historians, Best Dissertation Prize of the Society for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology)

2013-2016
Research Assistant (Predoctoral), Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Bonn 

2012
Predoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (four Months)

2010
Predoctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Warsaw (four Months) 

2010-2013
Member of the GCSC (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture), University of Gießen; Scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

2003-2009
Studies of modern and contemporary history, economics and public law in Tübingen and Krakow

The Emmy Noether-Group analyzes management knowledge in economic development projects in socialist Europe and in countries of the Global South from the 1950s to the 1980s. It will show how management knowledge was produced, used and interpreted in socialist command economies and in developing economies – and thus beyond the common focus on the capitalist North. The group comprises three studies, which analyze development projects in the GDR, China, Poland and Nigeria. They allow for studying managerial practices and discourses on the micro level and they will uncover new relations between management and planning. Management and planning have long been treated as opposing poles along the dividing line of market and state. Instead, by choosing a transregional and a history of knowledge approach the group will study management and planning in an entangled perspective. It will thus contribute to understanding the emergence of our contemporary liberal economic world order as a heterogeneous, contested and multipolar process. 

Funding: DFG

Duration: 2025-2030