• 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.
• 07/2013 – 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 – Postdoctoral research 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.