Career
Academic Carrier
| 11/2016 | Habilitation at the University of Trier |
| 10/2004 | Master of Arts (Library and Information Science), Humboldt UniversityBerlin |
| 10/2001–07/2003 | Postgraduate degree course in library science at the Humboldt University Berlin |
| 07/2000 | PhD at the University of Trier |
| 01/1995–07/2000 | Doctoral student at the University of Trier |
| 02/1992 | Licentiate at the University of Zurich |
| 10/1983–02/1992 | Studies in general history, economic history/social economics and political science at the University of Zurich |
Positions an Research Fellowships
| 11/2018 | DFG-Project (principal investigator) “The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)” at the Humboldt University Berlin |
| 10/2017– 07/2018 |
Fellow at the International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History“, Humboldt University Berlin. Research topic: „The Borders of the Welfare State: Labour Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion“ |
| 10/2015 | Visiting Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lüneburg |
| 09/2014 | Karl-Ferdinand-Werner Fellowship, German Historical Institute Paris. Research topic: “Guilt, Law and Justice. The Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Modern Europe” |
| 07/2013–12/2013 | Fellowship at the German Historical Institute London. Research topic: “Guilt, Law and Justice. The Royal Prerogative of Mercy in Modern Europe” |
| 04/2011–09/2011 | Fellowship at the Germen Historical Institute London. Research topic: “Vagrancy / Landstreicherei: the wandering poor in England and Germany (1870-1933)” |
| 02/2002–12/2012 | Postdoctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Centre 600 Strangers and Poor People: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day based at the University of Trier |
| 02/2001–01/2002 | Archivist in the Department Archives / Library / Documentation of the broadcaster “Deutsche Welle”, Cologne |
| 01/1995–12/1997 | PhD-scholarship in the research training group Western Europe in Comparative Historical Perspective at the University of Trier |
| 09/1992–12/1994 | Information Specialist at the “Presse- und Medienarchiv AG” and part-time museum guide at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich |