2020 - today | Postdoc researcher and lecturer, head of the Computational Musicology team at Audio Communication Group TU Berlin |
2018 - 2019 | Guest professorship (W2) for "Media and Music" at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research (IJK), HfMTM Hanover |
2016 - 2018 | Head of research in EU Horizon project "abc_dj" (3.5 Mio EUR r&d project on AI as a tool in Music Branding) |
2012 - 2015 | Principal investigator in research project "Survey Music and Media. Empirical basic data and theoretical modelling of the mediatisation of everyday music reception in Germany". |
2010 - 2012 | Postdoc researcher at Audio Communication Group, TU Berlin / Berlin Cluster-of-Excellence "Languages of Emotion" |
2009 - 2010 | Postdoc lecturer (methods of empirical social research and statistics) at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, University of Oldenburg |
2009 | Doctorate in Philosophy ("summa cum laude") at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg with the dissertation thesis: "Jenseits des Films. Quantitativ-inhaltsanalytische Rekonstruktion von filmischen Verstehens- und Aneignungsprozessen mit Hilfe der Postrezeptiven Lesartenanalyse (PLA)", supervised by Prof. Yvonne Ehrenspeck (General Education and Media Education) and Prof. Bernard Kittel (Methods in the Social Sciences) |
2007 - 2010 | Scientific assistant with teaching duties (media pedagogy, research methods) at the Institute for Pedagogy at the University of Oldenburg |
2005 - 2009 | Teaching assistant for digital audio processing at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts |
2005 - 2007 | Research assistant in the DFG research project "Communicative Education Processes of Adolescents on the Topic of Death and Filmic Patterns of Instruction" of the department "Philosophy of Education" (Prof. Dieter Lenzen) at the Free University of Berlin |
2005 - 2006 | Teaching assistant for Information Psychology at the University of Applied Sciences Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel |
2003 - 2005 | Master's degree in Media Management at the Hanover University of Music and Drama (final grade: 1.5 / ECTS grade B - very good) |
2003 - 2005 | responsible head of the sound studio of the Central Media Workshop at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts |
2002 | Student assistant in the BmBF/MWK-funded research project "CRIMP - Criteria for Evaluation of Audiovisuals in Multimedia Production", of the L3S Research Centre, University of Hanover |
1998 - 2003 | Master's degree in Media Studies, Psychology and Media Technology at the Technical University and University of Fine Arts Braunschweig (final grade: 1.3). |
1997 | Baccalaureate in English, Music, History (bilingual) and Computer Science at the Gymnasium Ricarda-Huch-Schule, Braunschweig (final grade: 1.8) |
1978 | Born in Braunschweig |