CV
Academic Positions
Since August 2022
— Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig
— Individual Research Grant (DFG): The Conceptualisation of the Regional in Historical-Geographical Landeskunde (1922–1970), since June 2025
— Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Theory, Methodology and History of Geography, Research Area Historical Geographies, September 2023–May 2025
— Editorial Associate, book series "Landscapes in Germany", published by the IfL and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, August 2022–August 2023
Since April 2018
— Lecturer, University of Bamberg
— Courses in Regional Geography and in Research Topics and Subject Methodology of Historical Geography
— Supervision of BA theses in Historical Geography and History of Geography
Education
Since 2025
— Habilitation, University of Bamberg
— Project: Historical Regional Geography: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of a Research Field
— Venia legendi in Historical Geography and Regional Geography (anticipated)
2018–2022
— PhD (Dr. phil., magna cum laude), University of Bamberg
— Dissertation: Spatialisation of Relevance: The Emergence of the Bavarian Eastern March in the Weimar Republic
2013–2018
— Master of Arts in Social and Population Geography, University of Bamberg
2013–2018
— Bachelor of Arts in Governance and Public Policy, University of Passau
Visiting Positions and Research Affiliations
September 2026–July 2027
— University of Regensburg, Bohemicum – Center for Czech Studies
February–April 2026
— Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich–Berlin, Center for Holocaust Studies, Munich
July 2021
— University of South Bohemia, Institute for Czech-German Area Studies, České Budějovice
January–March 2020
— Charles University Prague, Research Centre for Cultural Geography and Historical Geography
July–September 2019
— Collegium Carolinum, Research Institute for the History of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, Munich
Since October 2018
— Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association, Herder Institute Research Academy, Marburg
Academic Service
Since March 2026
— Spokesperson, Theme 3 "Knowledge, Space, Practice: Practices and Discourses of Geographical Knowledge Production", Fifth Medium-Term Research Programme, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography
Since March 2026
— Secretary, German National Committee of the International Geographical Union (IGU)
Since October 2024
— Co-Editor, Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde
Since January 2024
— Secretary, Executive Board, German Society of Geography (DGfG)
Since September 2021
— Board Member, Working Group for Historical Cultural Landscape Research in Central Europe (ARKUM)
Since September 2021
— Co-Editor, Siedlungsforschung. Archäologie – Geschichte – Geographie
Peer Review
Research Funding
Czech Science Foundation (GAČR)