I am an architectural historian, media scholar, and curator based in Munich, Germany and currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the saai | Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering. Additionally, I co-lead the DFG Research Network WAS: Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism. In my research and projects, I’m interested in architecture and bureaucracy, knowledge production through non-architectural media and actors, architectural archives and metadata structures, critical histories of planning, and artistic works engaging with architecture. My writing has appeared in academic journals as well as artistic publications, including the catalogues of the Architecture Museum of TUM, Architectural Theory Review, JAE, sub\urban, Die Architekt, and architectural exhibition review. At the saai Archive, I lead the audio platform Archive Gossip where we produce oral histories and podcasts for and about the archive.

I hold a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from KIT, received 2024 with the thesis “From Farms to the 'New Frontier': The Planning of UC Irvine's Educational Environment, 1932-1965,” which was awarded the KIT Dissertation Prize 2024, marking the first time it has been awarded to a Doctor of Philosophy. As of 2025, I am working on a book manuscript based on the dissertation. This research was carried out between 2020 and 2023, when I was as a doctoral researcher at the LOEWE Excellence Cluster “Architectures of Order. Practices and Discourses between Design and Knowledge” at Goethe University Frankfurt and taught in the Department of Media Studies. During that time and since, I was supported and invited to speak about my research at the SAH Annual Conference, EAHN Biannual Conference, UCLA, University of Copenhagen, TU Munich, TU Darmstadt, University of Bremen, Central Institute of Art History Munich (ZIKG), Fritz-Hüser-Institute Dortmund, and Art University Linz.

Previously, I was an assistant curator at the Architecture Museum of TU Munich, where I worked on exhibitions and catalog productions such as “Die Neue Heimat,” “The Architecture Machine,” and “DesignBuild in Architecture” and taught Bachelor and Master students. During my time at the AM, I cooperated with the psychiatric university hospital of TUM (Klinikum Rechts der Isar) to do museum and city tours with patients from the open ward. In Frankfurt, I cooperate with Architects4Future and Scientists4Future for architecture tours to draw attention to the “old” university campus in Bockenheim–where I also studied–featuring many unprotected buildings by architect Ferdinand Kramer.

I hold degrees in Art History, Media Studies, and Curatorial Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt and the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts. During my studies, I received fellowships from the German Federal Government Fellowship (Deutschlandstipendium) and the German Institute for Art History, Paris (DFK). In 2017, I curated the cabinet exhibition “Treasures from the Archive 7: Zaha Hadid” at DAM and in 2018 a performance series at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt.