• Date and place of birth: 19 December 1979, Schwäbisch Gmünd

Education and career

• October 2015–March 2016 – Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin
• Since October 2011 – Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg, as part of the BMBF-funded project ‘Focus on Research-Based Learning (FLiF)/Research-Oriented Teaching (FoL)’.
• July 2010–February 2011 – Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research in New York, USA, at the invitation of Jay M. Bernstein.
• November 2007 – January 2013 – PhD at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University with a thesis on Adorno’s philosophy of language (supervisors: Martin Seel, Christoph Demmerling).
• November 2007–May 2008 – Trainee in editing and production at the ‘Text und Kritik’ series, Richard Boorberg Verlag, Munich/Stuttgart.
• Oct 2004–Jan 2005 – Work placement at Karl Alber Verlag in Freiburg
• 10/2002–09/2003 – Research assistant and tutor at the chair of Prof. Ulrich Herbert, Department of History, University of Freiburg.
• 1999–2006 – Studied Philosophy, Political Science, Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the University of Durham (UK). December 2006: Master of Arts (Magister Artium) from the University of Freiburg.
• 1986–1999 – Attended primary and secondary school in Baden-Württemberg; obtained the Abitur in June 1999.

Awards, scholarships and research grants

• October 2015 – My doctoral thesis was awarded the ‘Geisteswissenschaften International’ prize (endowed by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association, VG Wort,
  the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office), which supports its translation into English.
• May 2015 – Certificate from the higher education teaching qualification programme ‘Research-Based Teaching and Learning’ at the University of Oldenburg, in co-operation with the Centre of Excellence for Higher Education Teaching in Lower Saxony (KHN).
• 12/2014 – Printing grant from the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg for the printing of the anthology ‘Why Criticism?’.
• 12/2014 – Printing grant from the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg for the printing of the doctoral thesis.
• July 2013 – Travel grant for early-career researchers from the University of Oldenburg for a lecture tour to Evian.
• 12/2011 – Travel grant for early-career researchers from the University of Oldenburg for a lecture tour to Hong Kong and Macau.
• 12/2011 – Travel grant from the Friends and Supporters of Goethe University Frankfurt for a lecture tour to Hong Kong and Macau.
• 09/2011–04/2012 – Doctoral completion grant from the Anna-Ruths Foundation.
• August 2010–January 2011 – Overseas research grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
• July 2008–June 2011 – doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.