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

Education and academic appointment

• 10/2015-03/2016 - Lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin
• since 10/2011 - Research assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg as part of the BMBF-funded project "Forschendes Lernen im Fokus (FLiF)/Forschungsorientierte Lehre (FoL)".
• 07/2010-02/2011 - Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research in New York/USA at the invitation of Jay M. Bernstein.
• 11/2007-01/2013 - PhD at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University with a thesis on Adorno's philosophy of language (supervisors: Martin Seel, Christoph Demmerling).
• 11/2007-05/2008 - Traineeship in editing and production at Edition Text und Kritik, Richard Boorberg Verlag Munich/Stuttgart.
• 10/2004-01/2005 - Internship at the publishing house Karl Alber in Freiburg
• 10/2002-09/2003 - Research assistant with the function of a tutor at the chair of Prof. Ulrich Herbert, Department of History at the University of Freiburg.
• 1999-2006 - Studied Philosophy, Political Science, Modern and Contemporary History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the University of Basel/CH and the University of Durham/GB. 12/2006 Magister Artium at the University of Freiburg.
• 1986-1999 - Attended primary school and grammar school in Baden-Württemberg, graduated in 06/1999.

Awards, scholarships, acquisition of funding

• 10/2015 - Awarded the "Geisteswissenschaften International" prize for my dissertation (sponsored by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, VG Wort,
  of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office), which supports the translation into English.
• 05/2015 - Certificate in the higher education didactics qualification programme "Research-based teaching and learning" at the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with the Centre of Excellence for Higher Education Didactics in Lower Saxony (KHN).
• 12/2014 - Printing cost grant from the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg for the printing of the anthology "Warum Kritik?".
• 12/2014 - Printing grant from the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Oldenburg for the printing of the dissertation.
• 07/2013 - Travel grant for young researchers of the University of Oldenburg for a lecture tour to Evian.
• 12/2011 - Travel grant for young academics from the University of Oldenburg for a lecture tour to Hong Kong and Macau.
• 12/2011 - Travel grant from the Friends and Sponsors of Goethe University Frankfurt for a lecture tour to Hong Kong and Macau.
• 09/2011-04/2012 - Doctoral scholarship from the Anna Ruths Foundation.
• 08/2010-01/2011 - Foreign research scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.
• 07/2008-06/2011 - Doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.