I have a doctorate in Anthropology, a state-certified communication trainer and a German as a foreign language teacher.
I work as a lecturer and trainer at various institutions and support internationals in their experiences.
I am fascinated by the question of what makes us tick and why that is. What I find particularly interesting is how we interact with each other as ultra-social and cultural beings. That is why I have been dealing with the topics of communication, interculturality and identity from an interdisciplinary perspective for many years.
Through my broad interdisciplinary academic training, I integrate approaches from many different areas of knowledge.
I work with heart and mind, am analytical, demanding and empathetic.
Current activities
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since 2009
Lecturer at the Language Teaching Institute at the University of Freiburg in the areas of inter/transcultural communication and German as a foreign language
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since 2017
Lecturer at the University College Freiburg at the University of Freiburg in the areas of inter/transcultural communication, identity, responsibility & leadership
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since 2019
Intercultural expert and trainer at the International Office of the Freiburg University of Education in the areas of L!NT, Incommings
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since 2021
Lecturer at the Macromedia Freiburg University of Applied Sciences in the areas of intercultural communication, communication skills and scientific work
Completed Projects
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2019 – 2024
Lecturer at the History Seminar at the University of Freiburg in the master's program in Interdisciplinary Anthropology
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2022 – 2023
Trainer at the International Office of the Technical University Georg Agricola Bochum in the area of inter/transcultural communication
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2022
Inter-/transcultural expert at the International Office of the Freiburg University of Education for VIM (Virtual Intercultural Mentoring)
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2009 – 2019
Lecturer in the Department of Physical Anthropology at the University of Freiburg in the field of Prehistoric Anthropology
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2008 – 2013
Lecturer for German as a foreign language at the following institutions: Goethe-Institut Freiburg, International Office of the University Freiburg, language school iOR Freiburg, Inlingua Basel (Switzerland)
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2009 – 2012
Doctoral funding position, Professorship for Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Leipzig
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2011
Research stay at the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest)
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2011
Anthropologist at the Commission for Archeology of Non-European Cultures of the German Archaeological Institute Berlin, Project Gò Ô Chùa (Vietnam)
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2009
Anthropologist at the Commission for Archeology of Non-European Cultures of the German Archaeological Institute Berlin, Project Prohear (Cambodia)
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2008
Research assistant at the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate of the Speyer Archeology Directorate, “Herxheim” project
Further trainings
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2025
“Mental trainer” (state-certified), German e-learning study institute
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2021
“Communication trainer” (state-certified), German e-learning study institute
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5. Juli 2018
Doctorate at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory, University of Leipzig
Topic: Health characteristics of late Roman migrants
Supervisor and first assessor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Rieckhoff
Second assesor: Dr. Karin Wiltschke-Schrotta, Director of the Anthropology Department, Natural History Museum Vienna
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2009-2018
Graduate School "The Leipzig School of Human Origins", Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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2010
Additional qualification for teaching in integration courses, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF)
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2008
Training „Inligua-Methods“, Inlingua Basel (Schweiz)
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2007-2008
Distance learning course “Methodology and didactics of foreign language teaching”, Goethe-Institut Munich
University Degree
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2006
Studies within the European Campus Oberrhein, Department of Religious Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland)
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2005
Studies of Social Anthropologiy, Canterbury University (New Zealand)
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2001 – 2007
Master's degree in Historical Anthropology & Modern and Contemporary History, University of Freiburg