2021
Researcher and Coordinator at the Center for Media and Modern Studies, University of Cologne 

2020
Habilitation University of Bremen  

2018/19
Interim Professor in Maritime Anthropology, University of Bremen 

2018
Paul Lazarsfeld Guest Professor for innovative Methodologies in Anthropology, University of Vienna

2017 – 2021
Academic Senior Councilor, University of Siegen 

2013/14
Interim Professor in Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

2012/13 and 2014/15 
Interim Professor Visual and Media Anthropology Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

2012 - 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, DFG-Research Training Group „Locating Media“, University of Siegen

2006 – 2012
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Bremen

2008
DAAD-Professor in European Studies, University of Texas at Austin

2004
Promotion, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main

1999 – 2006
Researcher and PhD-candidate at the DFG-Research College “Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel”, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main

• Media and Visual Anthropology
• Museum Anthropology
• Health, Wellbeing and Medicine
• History of Anthropology and Media Studies
• Ethnographic Methods
• Native North America