University Assistant / Scientific Staff
Research interests
- historical archaeologies from the early medieval to the modern period in Central Europe
- burial archaeologies, archaeologies of modern conflicts (in particular the Nazi period)
- identity formation processes, mortuary practices, subversive practices as driving force of social and cultural change, the archaeology of social spaces
- theories and methods of historical archaeologies
Academic degrees
2017
Diploma in Geographic Information Systems, University of Salzburg (AT)
2013
Dr. phil. in Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, University of Vienna (AT) (“Am Rande des Grabs. Todeskonzepte und Bestattungsritual in der frühmittelalterlichen Alamannia/At the brink of the grave. Death conceptions and mortuary practices in the early medieval Alamannia”, published 2015 with Sidestone Press, Leiden, https://www.sidestone.com/books/am-rande-des-grabs)
2008
Mag. phil. (MA equivalent) in Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology, University of Vienna (AT) (“Zwischen Baiovaria und Karantanien. Das frühmittelalterliche Gräberfeld von Micheldorf/Kremsdorf, OÖ/ The early medieval cemetery of Micheldorf/Kremsdorf, Upper Austria” published 2016 in J. Leskovar (ed.), Frühmittelalter in Oberösterreich. Inventare aus den Sammlungen des Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz: OÖLM, 11–189)
Research experience
2018 – 2020
Researcher at the State Office for Cultural Heritage in Baden-Wurttemberg, DE (project: The Natzweiler concentration camp complex in Baden-Wurttemberg: assessment and study of the archaeological heritage of camps and places of forced labour)
2017
Post-Doc Researcher, Department of Near Eastern Archaeology/Freie Universität Berlin, DE (project: "Archaeology of Nazi-forced-labour camps at Tempelhof airfield, Berlin")
2014 – 2017
Post-Doc and Marie-Curie-Post-Doc Researcher, Zukunftskolleg/University of Konstanz, DE (projects: Unbaptized children between theological discourse and social practices in 12th to 16th century Central Europe | Archaeology of Forced Labour in the Alps | Constance Buildings-Court Protocols (15th c.)
2012
PhD-research scholarship, University of Vienna, AT, including research visits in GB
2010 – 2011
IFK-Junior Fellow Abroad (PhD-scholarship of the IFK Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Wien and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, AT) for research visits at the University of Cambridge and the University of Reading, GB
2009 – 2010
IFK-Junior Fellow at the IFK Wien, AT (PhD-scholarship)
2008 – 2014
Researcher (project-based) at the Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology/University of Vienna, AT
2008 – 2012
Archaeologist (project-based) at the Centre Archéologique Européen/Bibracte, FR
2004 – 2009
Mitarbeit bei div. Rettungsgrabungen in Österreich
Awards
2014
Erwin-Wenzel Award of the Erwin-Wenzel-Stiftung (AT) (PhD-Award) | Grete-Mostny-Dissertation Award of the University of Vienna (AT)
2008
Award for Excellent Studies of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
2006
Award of the Wels City Council (AT) for studies related to the history of the City of Wels
Sundries
Member of the editorial collective of Forum Kritische Archäologie http://www.kritischearchaeologie.de