Research Foci
- Interdisciplinary studies on antisemitism
- Religion and conspiracy myths
- Peace ethics and security politics
- Political ethics and Politics of religion
- Sociology of Religion and Church sociology (focus on Germany)
CV
Academic Education
- Research Affiliate at the research lab ‘Social Media & Hate’ and ‘Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism’ at Indiana University (supervised by Prof. Günther Jikeli)
- Research stay as visiting affiliate in the USA at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) at Indiana University Bloomington (supervised by Prof. Günther Jikeli and Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld)
- Visiting scholar at the "Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry" and in the "Irwin Cotler Fellowship Program" at Tel Aviv University (supervised by Prof. Uriya Shavit and Dr. Carl Yonker)
- "Junior Visiting Fellowship Programme" at the Centro Melantone in Rome: opportunity for research and project presentation at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies supervised by Prof. Rabbi David Meyer and Prof. Massimo Gargiulo) and the Waldensian Theological Faculty (supervised by Prof. Daniele Garrone and Prof. Lothar Vogel)
- Doctoral Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
- Doctoral student in the graduate school programme of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christel Gärtner, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Schmitt and PD Dr. Felicity Jensz)
- Internship abroad in Brussels at the Representation Office of the Protestant Church in Germany (under the mentorship of OKR'in Katrin Hatzinger)
- 1st Theological Examination (Protestant Church of Westphalia) / Magister Theologiae of the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg
- Studies of Protestant Theology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
- Internship in the German Bundestag (under the mentorship of MdB Sybille Benning)
- Internship abroad in Jerusalem at the Evangelical-Lutheran Congregation of the German Language (under the mentorship of Propst Wolfgang Schmidt)
- Immanuel-Kant High School in Bad Oeynhausen (Degree: German Abitur)
Positions
- Research assistant at the office of the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) at the University of Münster
- Research assistant at the office of the Center for Religion and Modernity (CRM) at the University of Münster
- Research assistant at the Institute for Ethics and Related Social Sciences (IfES) at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster (Prof. Dr. Arnulf von Scheliha)
- Student assistant at the Chair of Ethics (Systematics) at the Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. Klaus Tanner)
Teaching
- Intermediate seminar: Hauptseminar (Ethik/Master): Antisemitismus als theologisches und sozialethisches Problem und religionspädagogische Aufgabe [010673]
(in cooperation with Arnulf von Scheliha) - Practice: Übung: Zeitenwende in der Religiosität der Deutschen?! Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden und theologische Diskussionen im Anschluss an die KMU 6 [016199]
(in cooperation with Catharina Jabss) - Introductory seminar: Proseminar: Einführung in die Systematische Theologie (Ethik): "Was ist theologische Ethik?" Die Ansätze Bonhoeffers, Thielickes, Rendtorffs und Herms [012084]
- Practice: Übung: Herausforderungen der heutigen Religionspolitik. Narrative und Verschwörungsmythen zwischen Deutschland und dem Nahen Osten [010091]
- Introductory seminar: Proseminar: Einführung in die Systematische Theologie (Ethik): Grundlegende Texte der Friedensethik [014141]
- Intermediate seminar: Hauptseminar (Ethik/Master): Antisemitismus als theologisches und sozialethisches Problem und religionspädagogische Aufgabe [010673]