Since 2019
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department for Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Cologne

2024 – 2025
 Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, DLCL

2023 – 2024
Visiting Professor at FU Berlin, Art and Visual Cultures of Africa and its Diasporas

2022 - 2026
Head of the research project Colonial Collections in Art Museums (funded by the German Lost Art Foundation)

2021
Project Team Member and Research Advisor Brücke Museum, Berlin, Project: The Brücke Artists in a Colonial Context

2020
PHD (Dr. phil) Colonial-Era Art in Symmetrical Perspective: Julius Lips and the Inversion of the Gaze

2019-2020
Guest Curator Exhibition Spectral-White. The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans, HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin

2017-2019
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department for Media Studies, Media Theory (Prof. Dr. Erhard Schüttpelz), University of Siegen

2018
Guest Curator Exhibition The Savage Hits Back. Colonial-Era Depictions of Europeans in the Lips Collection, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum - Kulturen der Welt, Köln, together with Lucia Halder und Dr. Clara Himmelheber 

2015 – 2016
Scholarship, DFG Graduate School Locating Media, University of Siegen

2012 – 2015
Research Associate, DFG Graduate School Locating Media, University of Siegen 

• Global / Transcultural Art Histories and Their Historiographies

• Colonial Collections, Provenance Research and Restitution

• Entangled Histories of Modernism and Colonialism

• Art, Migration and Memory

• Curatorial Research and Collaborative Knowledge Production

• The Role of Heritage in Times of Social and Ecological Crisis