I\u2019m an Anthropologist. For several years I worked in the film industry before I studied European Ethnology, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My master thesis \u00bbRestopia. Selfstorage als urbane Praxis\u00ab explored the material side of urban development and the relationship between people, things and biographies through a fieldwork in 14 German Selfstorage Facilities. It won the Georg-Simmel-Award for urban research 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve worked since as a lecturer at the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt University Berlin, and the Department of Sociology at Kassel University and as a researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS)\/ TU Munich and the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin (CMB), where I’ve co-leaded the research group \u00bbWeltwissen und Erfahrungen des Globalen\/ Exp\u00e9riences et savoirs du global\u00ab from 2016 to 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since 2022 I\u2019m coordinating the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies in Berlin, and teach at the Department of European Ethnology at the University of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My research interests are Material Culture Studies, (Audio)visual anthropology, Material Memory Cultures, Plastic Pollution, Waste, Cultures of Exchange and Circularity, Thingspaces and Human-Environment Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have been involved in several artistic projects in recent years, including: \u00bbM\u00e4nner in Garagen\u00ab\/ Sophiens\u00e4le Berlin (2014), \u00bbArchitecture of Storage\u00ab\/ DAZ Berlin (2018), \u00bbWo Dinge wohnen\u00ab\/ Wien Museum (2019), \u00bbVon Jedem Eins\u00ab\/ Basis Frankfurt (2021), \u00bbM#tter\u00ab\/ Gallus Theater Frankfurt (2022) and \u201eWas die Toten h\u00f6ren\u201c, Galerie Alice Guy, Institut Fran\u00e7ais Berlin (2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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