Brief CV/Curriculum Vitae

 
  • Since August 2026, research assistant at the Centre for Structural Change and Regional Development (ZeStuR), Cluster 5 ‘Conflicts over Democracy and Migration’
  • April 2021 – March 2025: Teaching and research fellow in the Department of ‘Methods and Theories of Social Work’, with a focus on community work and prevention of right-wing extremism, including co-ordinating the Graduate College ‘Professionalisation of the Health and Social Care Professions in the Context of Societal Transformation Processes’
    Since August 2024: Officer responsible for monitoring of (extreme) right-wing influence at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
    Since 04/2025: Teaching and research fellow at the chair “Social services for structural weak regions”, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
  • April 2020 – July 2024: Lecturer at Akkon University of Applied Sciences on ‘Theories and Methods of Social Work’
  • November 2019 – March 2021: Officer for Social Responsibility at IPPNW e.V.
  • 01/2014 – 10/2016 Worked as a social worker in various fields: work at a multi-generational centre (neighbourhood drop-in centre), family support & supervised contact, school social work 
Education/Degrees/Key professional development/Qualifications
 
  • Since 2024 PhD student at the Technical University of Berlin in the Spatial Sociology chair Research topic: ‘Nostalgia between loss and reorientation: Connections between subjectification and the refiguration of post-socialist urban spaces in East Germany’ (working title)
  • 2016–2019: Master’s degree in Sociocultural Studies, European University Viadrina – scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  • 2009–2013 Diploma in Social Work/Social Pedagogy, Evangelische Hochschule Berlin, specialising in mediation
     
Courses taught at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
  • Democratic Practice in Societies in Transition – Summer Semester 2026, Winter Semester 2026/27
  • Prevention of Right-wing Extremism – Summer Semester 2026
  • Community Organising Winter Semester 2023/24, Winter Semester 2024/25
  • Theories and Professional Development – Winter Semester 2021/22
  • Theory-Guided Professional Practice: Action Concepts
Summer Semester 2021