Vita / CV

Academic Positions

• Since 2023    
  Professor for Media Anthropology and Method Innovation (currently 50% due to partial parental leave), University of Siegen
• 2020 - 2023    
  Professor for Public Anthropology, University of Bremen
• 2017         
  Research Fellow, Department of Communications, Stanford University, US
• 2014 - 2020    
  Professor for Digital Cultures, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2013 - 2022   
  Co-PI, “Digital Cultures Research Lab”, “Reconfiguring Anonymity” & “Zukunft machen”, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2012 - 2013   
  Academic Director, Schwerpunkt Digitale Medien Innovations-Inkubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2011 - 2013   
  Senior Lecturer, Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS), Goldsmiths, London
• 2010 - 2011    
  PI & Research Associate, “Measuring Value” & “Mediated Liveness”, CCS, Goldsmiths, London
• 2006 - 2007    
  Lecturer, CCS, Goldsmiths, London
• 2003 - 2010    
  Research Associate, “Metadata Project”, “Technology by Design” & “Broadband Project”,CCS & Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, London
• 2002         
  Substitute Professur, Cultural Work, Potsdam Polytechnic
• 2010       
  Promotion, European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin,
• 1996        
  Magister, Empirische Kulturwissenschaft & Ethnologie, University of Tübingen.

Academic Service Positions and Affiliations

• Since 2024    
  Speaker, Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar, University of Siegen
• Since 2024    
  Co-Speaker, Working Group Public Anthropology, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
• Since 2022    
  DFG-Network Public Anthropology
• 2012 - 2014   
  Speaker, Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), Leuphana University Lüneburg
• Since 2017    
  Liaison Lecturer (Vertrauensdozent), Hans Böckler Foundation