CV

Professional experience

since 2020Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Research Strategy Unit 		Science manager
Development and management of research funding instruments, monitoring and reporting processes, communication measures – e.g. for the strategy program LMUexcellent and the German Federal-Länder Tenure-Track Program; process optimization, quality management, knowledge management; content management for LMU.de/forschung and LMU.de/academic-careers.
2015 – 2019Technische Universität München (TUM)
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Management Office 		2017 – 2019: Science manager
Reporting, committee coordination, knowledge management, coordination of MCTS website relaunch, website administration/content management.
2015 – 2017: Science manager / Research associate
Assistant to the managing director of the MCTS graduate center. Various administrative tasks, event organization.
2010 – 2015Technische Universität München (TUM)
Chair for Robotics and Embedded Systems		2013 – 2015: Science manager / Research associate
2010 – 2013: Science manager / Graduate assistant
Project management, reporting, PR, and quality management in international EU-funded robotics consortium projects.
2006 – 2010 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Chair of General and Experimental Psychology 		Student assistant / Graduate assistant
Conduction of psychophysiological experiments (EEG, eye tracking, hand movement tracking) and laboratory management.

Education

2020 Technische Universität München (TUM)
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) 		Science and Technology Studies – Dr. phil.
・Doctoral Thesis: ‘Robots Wanted: Dead And/Or Alive. The Attribution of In/Animacy to Robot Technology‘ [Abstract (PDF)].
・Published in 2021 as ‘More Than Machines? The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology‘ with Transcript Publishing
・Advisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Maasen (Universität Hamburg, Professorship of Science and Innovation Research; formerly at TUM, Chair of Sociology of Science).
・03/2015 – 08/2017: PhD scholarship, Andrea von Braun Foundation.
・An essay reflecting on the interdisciplinary aspects of my doctoral research is available here (PDF, in German). It was written in the context of my Andrea von Braun Foundation PhD scholarship.
2010Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München (LMU)		Psychology – Diplom (equivalent to M.Sc.)
・Majors: Neuro-cognitive psychology & occupational/organizational psychology.