I studied Modern History, Politics and Peace and Conflict Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany) and the Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland, Reykjavík), graduating from Marburg with a Magister Artium degree. After having worked self-employed as an editor for some time, I joined the University of Warwick as a Wolfson Scholar. At Warwick, I did my PhD in German Studies and History. Funded by a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities, my doctoral project examined perceptions of Israel in the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 to 2005) from the perspective of cultural history. Preparation for this project (funded by both the Prof. Dr. Adolf Schmidtmann Stiftung and the Stiftung Zeitlehren) included a research stay in Israel as a visiting scholar at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and archival research at the Institut für Zeitungsforschung (Dortmund/Germany). I am a member of the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, the European Association for Jewish Studies and the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland.

• Research on anti-Semitism.

• History of the Shoah.

• Commemorative culture and the politics of remembrance in the Federal Republic of Germany, relating specifically to the Shoah: the (West) German engagement with the crimes of National Socialism in the realms of politics of memory, state, institutions, memorial culture, political culture, civil society and social psychology.

• History of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• History of German–Israeli relations.

• Approaches to the phenomenon of 'school shootings' from the perspective of Conflict Theories.

• 02/2020: Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland Travel Scholarship (funding of a research stay in Israel).
• 12/2018 to 01/2019: Travel Grant from the Godfrey Carr Fund, University of Warwick (funding of archival research at the British Library in London/UK and funding of archival research at the Institut für Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund/Germany).
• 05/2018: Travel Grant from the Godfrey Carr Fund, University of Warwick (funding of participation in the conference 'ISRAEL: A CASE STUDY', Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boqer/Israel, 14/05/2018 to 16/05/2018).
• 11/2016: Travel Grant from the Godfrey Carr Fund, University of Warwick (funding of a research stay in Israel subsequent to participating in a Yad Vashem-based Workshop for PhD students who are focusing on Holocaust-related topics).
• 10/2016 to 10/2019: Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities (PhD funding).
• 09/2016: Research scholarship of the Stiftung Zeitlehren (research scholarship to conduct archival research at the Institut für Zeitungsforschung in Dortmund/Germany).
• 01/2016 to 02/2016: Research scholarship of the Prof. Adolf Schmidtmann Stiftung (research scholarship to conduct research as a visiting scholar at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History in Jerusalem/Israel).
• 08/2007 to 09/2008: Free-Mover Scholarship (funding of a study abroad at Háskóli Íslands, Reykjavík/Iceland).

• 'Third German–Israeli Archival Exchange Colloquium 2019/2020 Encounters' (jointly organized by the Hamburg-based Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden and Tel Aviv University), 01/02/2020 to 07/02/2020. Part II, Israel: The Central Zionist Archives (Jerusalem), The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem), The National Library of Israel (Jerusalem), Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), The Haifa City Archive (Haifa), The Ghetto Fighters' House Archives (Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot). (Presentation: ‘Perceptions of the Six-Day War in the Federal Republic of Germany’.) Subsequent to the colloquium research stay in Israel to conduct further archival research.

• 'Third German–Israeli Archival Exchange Colloquium 2019/2020 Encounters' (jointly organized by the Hamburg-based Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden and Tel Aviv University), 21/07/2019 to 27/07/2019. Part I, Germany: Staatsarchiv der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (Hamburg), Jüdisches Museum Berlin/Leo Baeck Institut Berlin (Berlin), Bundesarchiv (Berlin), Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts (Berlin), Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland (Heidelberg), Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main). (Project presentation: ’Perceptions of Israel in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 to 2005: changes in attitudes and shifts in patterns of prejudice’.) Subsequent to the colloquium research stay in Germany to conduct further archival research.

• British Academy (London/UK), 11/07/2018: 'Wolfson Postgraduate Scholars in the Humanities Symposium'. (Project presentation: 'Criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 to 2005'.)

• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Sde Boqer/Israel), 14/05/2018 to 16/05/2018: 'ISRAEL: A CASE STUDY. The Jewish State through the Prism of Social Sciences and Humanities. International Conference on the Occasion of Israel’s 70^th Anniversary.' (Presentation: 'Criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 to 2005 – first findings'.)

• Yad Vashem (Jerusalem/Israel), 21/11/2016 to 24/11/2016: 'Joint Workshop of the Wiener Library and Yad Vashem for advanced PhD students who are focusing on Holocaust-related topics'. (Presentation: 'Criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 to 2005'.)

• University of Warwick (Coventry/UK), 03/11/2016: Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop 'Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders' with Prof. em. Steven Aschheim from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Brief presentation: research proposal 'Criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 to 2005'.)